Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: >> I found that increasing the read_latency to match write_latency fixes the >> problems perfectly - thanks for the pointer! > >Ok good. Andrea, could we bump read latency in 2.2.17-pre? Yes. >> Increasing the read_latency and write_latency to 10,000,000 r

RE: help!

2000-08-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Check out the section on that in the Software-RAID HOWTO. You can get it from http://www.LinuxDoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1 but a mirror closer to you might be better. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, Augu

Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-14 Thread bug1
Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > The revised comparison between 2.2.15 and 2.4.0-test5 are as follows: > > ==> 2.2.15 <== > > Dir Size BlkSz Thr# Read (CPU%) Write (CPU%) Seeks (CPU%) > - -- --- - -- -- > /mnt/ 256

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-08-14 Thread Anton
judging by the traffic on this list, patched 2.2.14 is your best bet. I have 2.2.12 which came with RH 6.1, and it works fine. -- ai http://sefiroth.org On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ryan Daly wrote: > Guys, > > I'm using 2.4.0-test5 right now 'cause I don't have the time to figure out how > the n

Re: Upgrading from non-RAID to RAID1

2000-08-14 Thread Michael
> file. Should the /dev/mdx's which are equivalent to the / and /boot > filesystems, respectively, be the first ones to be mounted? Doesn't matter. The kernel mounts the root and the others are mounted when fstab is read (root is already mounted at this point). [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Data Recovery

2000-08-14 Thread Martin Brown
I lost 2 drives out of a 2 drive RAID5. How can I rebuild the super blocks of the 2 dead drives to see if I can restore tire some data? And.. if am able to mount the array and it shows up with the correct drive space used, but some of the files are an incorrect file type.. what would cause this

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-08-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Guys, > > I'm using 2.4.0-test5 right now 'cause I don't have the time to figure out how > the new module directory structure works... (If anyone knows what to do, can > you let me know?) "make modules_install" should install the RAID modules into

Re: autodetection

2000-08-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ryan usually i get the opposite problem how to stop the system from autodetecting the raid array sot hat it doesnt stop the booting... so to turn it ondo the oopposite of what i do to fix my "faulty raid" when it dies - make sure you have /etc/raidtab - make sure your kernel

Upgrading from non-RAID to RAID1

2000-08-14 Thread pyz
Greetings, I'm (somewhere) in the middle of upgrading from non-raid to RAID1. I'm using RH6.2 on a dual PIII-450s w/ 2 Barracuda 20GB Seagates (with minutely different geometries). Looking at Section 4 of "the Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid HOWTO" I've gotten up to 4.5 - "Test your n

autodetection

2000-08-14 Thread Ryan Daly
Again may be missing something here... How do you turn on autodetection in the kernel? -rd

help!

2000-08-14 Thread Martin Brown
2 of my 4 raid drives failed.. what's the best way to repair the super block to see if I can get one of them to work? ___ Martin Brown Unix Systems and Network Administrator Tantalus Communications Inc. Suite 500 - 1122 Mainland Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5L1 [EM

2.4 kernel

2000-08-14 Thread Ryan Daly
Guys, I'm using 2.4.0-test5 right now 'cause I don't have the time to figure out how the new module directory structure works... (If anyone knows what to do, can you let me know?) The 2.4 series has the new RAID code built in already, correct? I'm using raidtools-19990824-0.90. Will I be OK w

Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Aug 14 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: > I have tried this out, and found that the default settings were: > elevator ID=232 read_latency=128 write_latency=8192 max_bomb_segments=4 > > Can anyone point me to any documentation on this elevator code? I was > wondering what exactly the diff

strange

2000-08-14 Thread octave klaba
Hi, We had a strange thing running on 2.2.16 raid-1 soft on ide. 8 days ago we saw the timeout on hdc. We could not raidhotadd /dev/hdc and nothing worked on hdc. So we decided to change the hdc (hd broken) We did it last friday and the reconstruction was easy. Today we realized this: the data on

Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-14 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Hi there, I am CC:ing this to Andrea Arcangeli because he is credited at the top of drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c as writing the elevator code. On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: > > The fact remains that disk performance is much worse under 2

md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 and other quirks

2000-08-14 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I took a stock 2.2.14 kernel, applied that raid patch (this time successfully), built and booted the kernel. Since I had a /etc/raidtab.foo i thought that raid wouldn't get autoconfigured but still I'm seeing these messages in dmesg output for which you may have an explanation: md driver 0

Re: Mostly OT: Tekram caching IDE controller

2000-08-14 Thread Andy Poling
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Edward Schernau wrote: > Anyone used the DC690 under Linux? Its a PCI card, 2 IDE busses, > no CDROM support, with 4 30pin SIMM slots. Supposedly does mirroring, > all of which is transparent to the OS. It doesn't require any DOS > drivers. Any pointers would be apprectiat