Re: mkraid aborts without any useful info written to syslog

2000-05-02 Thread Michael Robinton
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jeff Fookson wrote: > I'm having problems configuring a 2-disk RAID-1 array on an i686 > machine. The machine has Redhat 6.2 installed > > > cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] > read_ahead not set > md0 : inactive > md1 : in

Re: mkraid aborts without any useful info written to syslog

2000-05-02 Thread phil
Same old thing... Your kernel has old raid code in it. The give away are those 'inactive' lines. Match the kernel raid code with the user-space apps, and you'll be fine. Phil On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:14:22PM -0700, Jeff Fookson wrote: >[...] > but there is nothing in the syslog to reflect

mkraid aborts without any useful info written to syslog

2000-05-02 Thread Jeff Fookson
I'm having problems configuring a 2-disk RAID-1 array on an i686 machine. The machine has Redhat 6.2 installed but the kernel is built from the 2.2.14 source from ftp.kernel.org, with the ide patch applied to support the Promise PDC20246 ATA66 controller. The raid array is to be on two identic

: Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-05-02 Thread john kidd
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raid 0.90

2000-05-02 Thread brian
Today I upgraded my 0.42 raid to 0.90 on a production server. The difference is astounding! Well done to all involved. It looks like Software raid is getting close to the point of making hardware raid redundant (but not in a good way :) ..Brian Init Systems - Linux consulting (031) 765-5269 (082

ANNOUNCE - Boot Root Raid + LILO howto has been sent to LDP

2000-05-02 Thread Michael
Boot Root Raid + LILO howto has been sent to LDP and move to it's local permanent directory here as well. See ftp://ftp.bizsystems.net/pub/raid Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SNMP and software RAID

2000-05-02 Thread Anton Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi list, I have the following question: Does linux software RAID have a defined MIB? I seem to have trouble finding it if it exists ;-( - -- Anton R. Ivanov IP Engineer Level3 Communications RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: A

Re: What happens when a disk fails?

2000-05-02 Thread Michael
> I found your page very helpful in setting up a raid1 system at my > work. I do have one unanswered question. How does the software > controller notify someone that one of the drives has failed? > Oh, I have a little script I run daily from a cron file -- actually two scripts. You could run t

Re: Fastest / Most stable way to get >2GB files in 2.2?

2000-05-02 Thread Andy Poling
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Brian Murphy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > Does anyone here have experience with ReiserFS or ext3 under software > > RAID? [...] > Software raid and ReiserFS are incompatible as far as I know - something to > do with the way they are implimented which conflicts -

Re: Fastest / Most stable way to get >2GB files in 2.2?

2000-05-02 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Dave, On 1 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a MySQL database, running on SW RAID-0 over ext2, that wants to > grow beyond the 2GB file size limit of ext2. I will be moving the > database this week to a four-way SMP system with six drives, so I want > to take this opportunity to move t

RAID-1

2000-05-02 Thread arun shan
hello sir, I want to implement RAID-1 on my pentium PC having linux with Kernel 2.0.36 on it and I have downloaded the raid-patch(raid0145-19990309-2.0.36 ) and raidtools(raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz) from ftp://ftp.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha. Now, my pr

Re: Fastest / Most stable way to get >2GB files in 2.2?

2000-05-02 Thread Brian Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a MySQL database, running on SW RAID-0 over ext2, that wants to > grow beyond the 2GB file size limit of ext2. I will be moving the > database this week to a four-way SMP system with six drives, so I want > to take this opportunity to move to a file system that