Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-26 Thread Michael
> 2 Masters from the ASUS P3C2000 CDU Board, 2 Masters on a CMD648 > based PCI controller and 4 Masters on a 3Wave 4 port RAID > Controller. I don't use the 3Wave as a RAID controller though, just > as a very good 4 channel Ultra66 board. They also make an 8 channel > board, and that's what I'm go

dump segmentation fault on RAID 0+1 partition

2000-04-26 Thread Gerrish, Robert
I am running Red Hat 6.1 on this particular computer which appears to have raidtools v0.90, etc . . . all the latest working patches. I had two mirrored partitions that were 8 & 6GB and we needed a 14GB partition. Rather than repartitioning the disks (and having to reinstalling the system), I

Re: how to conigure autodetection

2000-04-26 Thread Christopher Gray
I had the same problem. My fdisk list types didn't show an fd or 0xfd selection. Also, beware of the 2.2.11 kernel. I installed it and the result was enormous memory leakage, and I think I read somewhere that this is a known problem with this particular kernel. Chris > > > > Hi there > > >

Re: how to conigure autodetection

2000-04-26 Thread P.C. Uiterlinden
Michael Hothorn wrote: > > Hi there > > I've just installed RAID1 with kernel 2.2.11 and raidtools 0.90. two > disks (/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb2/) are mirrored. Everything is running jsut > fine. I read the manual to configure autodetection, but there were just > some short comments. > > 1. I've

Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-26 Thread Clay Claiborne
The coolest guy you know wrote: > Clay Claiborne wrote: > > > > For what its worth, we recently built an 8 ide drive 280GB raid5 system. > > Benchmarking with HDBENCH we got 35.7MB/sec read and 29.87MB/sec write. With > > DBENCH and 1 client we got 44.5 MB/sec with 3 clients it dropped down to

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2000-04-26 Thread Amias Channer
Hello y'all , I have been subscribed to the RAID mailing list for a while and am interested in the general too'ing and fro'ing withing this list but it's all getting too much for my mailer . Is there a digest for the RAID mailing list a la LKML ? if not could one be set-up ? Toodle-pip Amias

Re: can't locate module block-major-22

2000-04-26 Thread James Manning
[Jason Lin] > After my raid-1 is up and running I shutdown the > machine and took out one hard disk.(the one without > Linux installed.) Just to see how it behaves. > During reboot it drops to single user mode due to RAID > device error. > > "raidstart /dev/md0" raidstart? eww :) > modprobe: ca

Re: stability of 0.90

2000-04-26 Thread Martin Bene
At 11:36 26.04.00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Stay away from the ``dangerous'' code. >So should I use the older raidtools at kernel.org? What are people using? I'm using raidtools from kernel.org (...0824... if I recall correctly) and 2.2.14 kernel patch from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/rai

Re: stability of 0.90

2000-04-26 Thread brian
>> Under >> , the file is labeled "dangerous". But I can't use >> the 2.2.11 code under kernel.org 'cause 2.2.11 has that nasty little TCP >> memory leak bug > >Stay away from the ``dangerous'' code. So should I use the older raidtools at kernel.org? What are people using? Regards, Brian In

RE: stability of 0.90

2000-04-26 Thread brian
>All the RAID code is "dangerous" even the old 0.40 stuff. The 2.2.11 patch >works all the way up to 2.2.13, for 2.2.14 you need Ingo's patch from the >above site. RAIDtools-0.90 is the version you want. So do I take Ingo's raidtools or the one on kernel.org? Sorry for repeating the question, b

Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-26 Thread =3D=3FISO-8859-2=3FQ=3FJure=5FPe=E8ar=3F=3D
> In the last 24 hours ive been getting them when e2fsck runs after > rebooting. Usual cause of rebooting is irq causeing lockup, or endlessly > trying looping trying to get an irq. > > Im convinced its my hpt366 controller, ive mentioned my problem in a few > channels, no luck yet. > > I used