RAID possible with disks of varying sizes?

2000-07-07 Thread Micah Anderson
I have got a machine that nearly coughed up blood yesterday because someone pulled the power on it. The fscks were nasty, let me tell you that I am happy for backup superblocks. Anyways, that was too close, I need a RAID solution in this weekend, or I am going to panic. The problem is the hardwa

Re: Misleading mdrun error msg

2000-07-07 Thread Patrik Schindler
At 21:21 Uhr + 07.07.2000, Torsten Kuehn wrote: >I received an obscure 'bad parameter' error msg with 'mdrun -p5 /dev/md0' >(after successful 'mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1'). Ker- >nel error log revealed 'md: 08:02: invalid raid superblock magic (0) on block..' >Item 1b. c) is

Misleading mdrun error msg

2000-07-07 Thread Torsten Kuehn
I received an obscure 'bad parameter' error msg with 'mdrun -p5 /dev/md0' (after successful 'mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1'). Ker- nel error log revealed 'md: 08:02: invalid raid superblock magic (0) on block..' Item 1b. c) is missing in QuickStart.RAID, with 'mkraid -f /etc/raid5.c

Raid1 and Journaling

2000-07-07 Thread Craig Servin
Do either ext3 or Reiserfs work with a Raid1? I am new to linux raid and just applied the 2.2.16-A0 patch and the read balancing patch and everything worked great. Before the read balancing patch the raid vol was about half the speed on reads as the actual disk devices. Now it is about the sam