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

Re: How do I spin up a SCSI disk after being hot swapped?

1999-10-04 Thread Brian Murphy
also another which I cant remember. Brian Murphy

Re: How do I spin up a SCSI disk after being hot swapped?

1999-10-04 Thread Brian Murphy
ually 0) with the values appropriate to your new device. If you added it in the same position as a removed device then you need to run the remove-single-disk with the same values before you run this command. This works with my hot plug setup to spin up and make the device accessible to the system. Brian Murphy

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread Brian Murphy
had tested their distribution and certified it on the Netfinity machines but there were not many details. I have sent a question off to SuSE asking for these details and I will post to the SMP and Raid groups when I get a response from them. SuSE are at http://www.suse.com. Brian Murphy

Hot swap problems... continued

1999-09-24 Thread Brian Murphy
happening? Brian Murphy

Hot Plugging Failure

1999-09-24 Thread Brian Murphy
76 driver disables the retries (perhaps after 5 or so) so the computer continues running on the other disk instead of hanging on the redundant failed one. I am sure this was handled properly (from a raid point of view) in the 2.0.36 kernel + raid patch. regards, Brian Murphy

Re: Lilo and Root Mirroring

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Murphy
t; > The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily > represent those of Trend CMHS or Trend Foundation. > >"I program my homecomputer; beam myself into > the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981 > > > -- > > From: Brian Murphy[SMTP:[EMAI

Re: Lilo and Root Mirroring (was: Software Mirroring and the root pa

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Murphy
when the machine comes up. Voila, your'e running on raid root! Brian Murphy Thomas Seidel wrote: > You're right. LILO doesn't like to install itself to a root raid1 partition > (LILO: "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900"). On the other hand, > the