Re: speed and scaling

2000-07-19 Thread Jens Klaas
Quoted mail: Dan Hollis wrote: ... some parts are cutted . I never denied that such beasts exist. I just wanted to point out that a x86 machine with those mobos would come close in price to the alpha solution. I simply can't imagine that there are no alpha boxen with more than 2 PCI

Re: general question.

2000-07-19 Thread James Manning
[Roman Seibel] comp:~/ # mkraid /etc/raidtab mkraid version 0.36.4 http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Specifically, the "requirements" section 1.2 http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.2 HTH, James -- James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key

Re: Raid1: How to verify that mirroring is functioning

2000-07-19 Thread James Manning
[root] Hi, Hello. I've created mirrored striped arrays (Raid10) and am not confident that my first striped set is in fact being mirrored on my second striped set. First question: did you make backups? :) When the mirrored mdX devices are created, cat /proc/mdstat does show that

RAID filesystem tuning questions

2000-07-19 Thread Kevin M. Myer
Hello, We recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 4400 server with a Perc3/di RAID controller. It arrived this week (after cough 3 _months_ of hassling over the order with Dell!!!) and I'm now setting it up. We have the system with five drives total. Two are 9Gb and three are 36Gb. The two 9Gb

3Ware Escalade 5000 6000, opinions?

2000-07-19 Thread Jarkko Kniivilä
Hi Raiders, I'm considering to purchase a 3Ware Escalade controller for a new server of ours. I'm thinking of Escalade because of the infamous incompatibility between Linux (2.2.x) SW RAID and LVM. And then there's the idea that maybe the sophisticated elevator routines that make SCSI drives so

Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 6000, opinions?

2000-07-19 Thread Jarkko Kniivil
- Original Message - From: "Dan Hollis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jarkko Kniivilä" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:20 AM Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade 5000 6000, opinions? On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jarkko Kniivilä wrote: between Linux (2.2.x) SW RAID and LVM.

Promise FastTrak66 and Linux...

2000-07-19 Thread Brad
Has anyone successfully installed a Promise FastTrak66 RAID controller into a Linux box? There are beta Linux drivers available and I am contemplating the project as I need IDE HD mirroring but I was wondering if anyone else had been successful in getting one working. Regards, Brad

Re: Raid1: How to verify that mirroring is functioning

2000-07-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've created mirrored striped arrays (Raid10) and am not confident that my first striped set is in fact being mirrored on my second striped set. ... Technical details: Kernel: 2.2.15, patched with unified IDE and mingo raid patch I