Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Chris Price
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Bill Anderson wrote: > Chris Price wrote: > > > > Robert, why are you running raid on 1 disk??? > > > > What benefit do you expect to derive from running raid on a single > > disk? > > > > Unless

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Price
Robert, why are you running raid on 1 disk??? What benefit do you expect to derive from running raid on a single disk? Unless you have a special application, there is **NO** point to creating a raid array from one disk. Chris On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert (

Re: (Offtopic) Backup Systems

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Price
I don;t know much about other open source backup solutions, but I can vaouch for amanda. It is a nice tight complete system that does a ton of administrivia for you... Chris Robert Siemer wrote: > > Re! > > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: > > My que

Re: Is Raid as frought as it looks?

1999-04-20 Thread Chris Price
Micheal; Any chance of you providing a 'cookbook' on howto do this? Just an illustration of the commands to execute and what to do in what order? I think we could all use this, and I for one am planning on doing this at work in teh near future. While I do not mind learn

raid0145-19990128-2.0.36.gz compile fails

1999-03-07 Thread Chris Price
Anyone else using this patch successfully? The 19990108 works fine with a pristine 2.0.36 source, but the 19990128 compile fails. I can post the errors, but wanted to ask first if there was an obvious known reason for this patch not to work. Thanks Chris

Re: obsolete MD ioct

1999-03-01 Thread Chris Price
> > "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. > money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera > > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Chris Price wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, m. allan noah wro

Re: obsolete MD ioctl

1999-02-28 Thread Chris Price
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, m. allan noah wrote: > is your system redhat 5.2? if so, do: > > rpm -e raidtools I did this. Raid1 array os working just peachy. > > and edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and remove the section on starting raid > (about 30 lines, do :/raid to find it in vi) > > then e

Re: Booting RAID-1

1999-02-27 Thread Chris Price
>Having lost a very important disk in the last 7 days, I decided that it > would be appropriate to configure the new web servers and db server for > linux.org with dual disks in a RAID-1 setup. Can I get some feedback on the > following, including any hurdles in configuration, etc. > >

Re: RAID1 experiences - patches

1999-02-15 Thread Chris Price
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > unavoidable. Still waiting for someone with better documentation skills > than mine to pick the maintainance of RAID-docs up :) I would be more than willing to do this, but I admittedly know very little about linux-raid. I would be more than h

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Price
So Micheal, WHERE IS THIS BLOODY INFO DOCUMENTED?? HUH Do we need to wait until you or some other 'sage' member of this group decides to bless us with their info, or will you guys start making some half-assed docs? (hey, I already have in my own small way, see my RAID1 cookbook of a

Re: RAID1 experiences - patches

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Price
> As for notifying redhatI'd suggest sending the raid announcements > and stuff to someone's attention and they might redirect it to the > right people etc... ??? ( so it'd be in their hands - what they do > is a separate issue ) > > have fun > alvin I agree wholeheartedly. A smal

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-14 Thread Chris Price
> Is anyone in the "linux-raid community" being paid to do research work > for redhat? If so, they should probably keep redhat informed. If not, I > think it's fair to expect redhat to do their own work. > > Mike Stone > Are you daft, or were you drunk when you wrote this... Saying th

Re: RAID1 experiences

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Price
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Geof Goodrum wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Erich J. Ritzmann wrote: > > > I have 'blindly' subscribed to this list as I have an immediate need to > > deploy a RAID1 system. I say blindly as I do not know where to find the > > main linux-raid web site or FAQ. > > Try ht

Quick and Dirty Raid1 howto

1999-02-10 Thread Chris Price
out RAID (and more specifically, Linux RAID says that a system with a raid array *OF ANY KIND* should be UPS protected with some sort of UPS montoring software enabled. No sense in going to the effort of building a raid array only to lose all/some of your data to a power failure. Of course, YMMV Chris Price Sysadmin Western Computer Link Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

OK, 1 last small prob (seemingly)

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Price
OK, in addition to my last post, upon rebooting my system (which had a raid1 device functioning flawlessly thru 2 hours of testing), I get teh following messages at boot: Starting up RAID devices. raidadd(pid 37) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use new ictls. r

Re: Please 'peer-review' my Raid1 setup

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Price
OK, so having thought I had everything working, mke2fs -c /dev/md0 on the setup I have (see last message) returns: mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/md0: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock Agggh...

Please 'peer-review' my Raid1 setup

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Price
Hi; After playing with RAID setups unsuccessfully for quite a while, I think I finally have a raid1 setup working. What I would like to ask is if the participants of this list could 'peer-review' my setup before I make it (the raid system) a production system for my organization.