raid5 failure

2000-07-21 Thread Seth Vidal
Hi, We've been using the sw raid 5 support in linux for about 2-3 months now. We've had good luck with it. Until this week. In this one week we've lost two drives on a 3 drive array. Completely eliminating the array. We have good backups, made everynight, so the data is safe. The problem is thi

Re: speed and scaling

2000-07-21 Thread Dan Jones
Seth Vidal wrote: > > Hi folks, > I have an odd question. Where I work we will, in the next year, be in a > position to have to process about a terabyte or more of data. The data is > probably going to be shipped on tapes to us but then it needs to be read > from disks and analyzed. The process

Re: Is the raid1readbalance patch production ready?

2000-07-21 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote: > Is the raid1readbalance-2.2.15-B2 patch (when applied against a > 2.2.16+linux-2.2.16-raid-B2 kernel) rock-solid and production > quality? Can I trust 750GB of users' email to it? Is it guaranteed > to behave the same during failure modes that the non

Is the raid1readbalance patch production ready?

2000-07-21 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Is the raid1readbalance-2.2.15-B2 patch (when applied against a 2.2.16+linux-2.2.16-raid-B2 kernel) rock-solid and production quality? Can I trust 750GB of users' email to it? Is it guaranteed to behave the same during failure modes that the non-patched RAID code does? Is anyone using it heavily i

Re: raid5 troubles

2000-07-21 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Martin Bene wrote: > "dangerous" tools. Bzw, has anyone checked what's different in this tools > package in comparison to the 19990824 release? yes it raises the max number of devices per superblock!!! -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communicatio

AW: raid5 troubles

2000-07-21 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Danilo, > > [root@mrqserv2 linux]# mkraid /dev/md0 > > handling MD device /dev/md0 > > analyzing super-block > > disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB > > disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB > > disk 2: /dev/sda6, failed > > mkraid: aborted, see the