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: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem

2000-08-13 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Matthias Koelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 3:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem > > Hi all, > > first of all...sorry for my english ;) > I had a strange problem at boot time

FW: updates

2000-08-12 Thread Gregory Leblanc
updates > > > Linux-RAID FAQ > v0.0.5 11 August 2000 > Gregory Leblanc, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is a FAQ for the Linux-RAID mailing list, hosted on > vger.rutgers.edu. It's intended as a supplement to the > existing Linux-RAID HOW

RE: lilo issue

2000-08-11 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:27 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: lilo issue > > >Can you show us your lilo.conf? Do you have a default label > set? Does

RE: lilo issue

2000-08-11 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 6:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: lilo issue > > Hi all, > I have my raid-1 up and running over two 9gig scsi > drives under slackware 7.1 with kernel 2.2.16+raid-2.2.6-AO > fro

RE: Loss of a SCSI device and RAID

2000-08-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Z. Ayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Loss of a SCSI device and RAID > > I've been wonder how this would work for a while. > > I know that the Linux kernel auto-detects the SCSI d

RE: Where to get uptodate raidtool/kernelpatches (2.2.1x) ?

2000-08-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Waldmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where to get uptodate raidtool/kernelpatches (2.2.1x) ? > > > Sure enough, you've got an old version of the RAID code. > Hop over to >

RE: Problems booting from RAID

2000-08-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jane Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Problems booting from RAID > > Hi, > > I am tearing my hair out over this stuff (I should have > mentioned that I am > completely new to no

RE: disc drive cache

2000-08-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Kay Salzwedel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: disc drive cache > > Hello, > > does anybody know how to find out about the size of a (EIDE) drives > cache if the company 'lost' the data she

RE: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:27 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RAID questions > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:07:58PM -0700, Gregory

RE: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I'm a little verbose, but this should answer most of your questions, although sometimes in a slightly annoyed tone. Don't take it personally. > -Original Message- > From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL

RE: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Carlos Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:57 AM > To: Andrea Arcangeli > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM > > >In 2.2.x that's not possible but for _very_ silly reasons. > > So can't this

RE: FAQ update

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:08 AM > To: Linux Raid list (E-mail) > Subject: Re: FAQ update > > [Luca Berra] > > >The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at > > >http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-p

RE: FAQ

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Here's one more update of the FAQ. Assuming not too many objections, I'll send it to Jacob, and see if I can contact the list owner and get a footer onto this list. Greg Linux-RAID FAQ Gregory Leblanc gleblanc (at) cu-portland.edu Revision History

RE: Problems booting from RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jane Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problems booting from RAID > > Hi, > > I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two > identical IDE > hard disks, each with 3 p

RE: owie, disk failure

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> > > disks are less than two weeks old, although I have heard > of people > > > having similar problems (disks failing in less than a > month new from > > > the factory) with this brand and model I would like > to get the > > In my experience 95% of drive failures occur in the first

RE: owie, disk failure

2000-08-06 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jeffrey Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 5:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: owie, disk failure > > h, the day i had hoped would never arrive has... > > Aug 2 07:38:27 chrome kernel: raid1: Disk failure on hdg1, > d

FAQ update

2000-08-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Here's a new version, with a couple of changes. What other questions get asked all the time? Greg Linux-RAID FAQ Gregory Leblanc gleblanc (at) cu-portland.edu Revision History Revision v0.02 4 August 2000 Revised by: gml Revised a the How do I patch? an

RE: Patched Kernel

2000-08-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Oooh ooh ooh! FAQ! :-) Unfortunately, it's not on the web yet, but here's the relevant section: 2.2. How can I tell if I need to patch my kernel? The easiest way is to check what's in /proc/mdstat. Here's a sample from a 2.2.x kernel, with the RAID patches applied. [gleblanc@greg

RE: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FAQ > > [Marc Mutz] > > >2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just > downloaded from > > >ftp.kernel.org? > > > > >

FAQ

2000-08-02 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Here's a quickie FAQ, it's very incomplete, but I wanted to get some feedback on what I've got right now. Thanks, Greg Linux-RAID FAQ Gregory Leblanc gleblanc (at) cu-portland.edu Revision History Revision v0.01 31 July 2000 Revised by: gml I

RE: Looking for Archive of messages sent to linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu

2000-07-31 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Anthony Di Paola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Looking for Archive of messages sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone keep an archive of the messages sent to this list > accessible > v

RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Corin Hartland-Swann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:53 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: Holger Kiehl; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation > [snip] > When I was

RE: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Corin Hartland-Swann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 7:15 AM > To: Holger Kiehl > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Question on disk benchmark and fragmentation > > Holger, > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Holger Kiehl wrote: > > Will th

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Danilo Godec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:22 AM > To: Neil Brown > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: raid and 2.4 kernels > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > If raid on 2.4 is fast than raid in 2.2, we say "gre

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-26 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:41 PM > To: Anton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid and 2.4 kernels > > On Wednesday July 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > do the kernel developers responsible for RAID read thi

RE: speed and scaling

2000-07-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Enough with the vulgarities. This doesn't really belong on the RAID list any longer, but I'll make a few points below. > -Original Message- > From: Marc Mutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > The alphas we have here have the same number of slots. > > > But not only one bus. They typi

RE: speed and scaling

2000-07-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Seth Vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 12:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: speed and scaling > > So were considering the following: > > Dual Processor P3 something. > ~1gb ram. > multiple 75gb ultra

RAID, persistent superblock on SPARC

2000-07-09 Thread Gregory Leblanc
What's the current status of RAID on SPARC? I haven't had a chance to keep up very much, as I wasn't using RAID on SPARCs. I'm about to build a mirrored system here, and I'd like to make sure that I'm not going to get hosed because of some bug. Thanks, Grego |--

RE: Dell PERC2/SC

2000-07-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 8:33 PM > To: Michael Ghens > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dell PERC2/SC > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote: > > > Also how big of a raid partition is possible? I hav

RE: problem with superblock

2000-06-28 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Anton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 1:21 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: problem with superblock > > So I have a total of 7 disks in the sys

RE: problem with superblock

2000-06-28 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: problem with superblock > > ## Betreff : problem with superblock > ## Ersteller: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anton) > > a> And is how do you

RE: performance statistics for RAID?

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 6:37 PM > To: Linux Raid list (E-mail) > Subject: Re: performance statistics for RAID? > > [Gregory Leblanc] > > Is there any chance of keeping track

performance statistics for RAID?

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I just read that message from James Manning on some performance tuning, and it made me think about this. On some of our RAID controllers, they collect statistics for the RAID volumes. The one that I'm thinking of collects things like this, except that I've trimmed some of the irrelevant informat

RE: Raid level 0 on an SMP Sparc 20

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Raid level 0 on an SMP Sparc 20 > > I am converting a Sparc-station 20 to linux, specifically > RedHat 6.2. I > have been having lots of problems wit

RE: Looking for drivers for DPT I2O card.

2000-06-25 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 7:36 PM > To: Alvin Starr > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Looking for drivers for DPT I2O card. > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Alvin Starr wrote: > > > I am trying to get a DPT I2O ca

RE: Installation of RAID

2000-06-23 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Dimitri SZAJMAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 7:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Installation of RAID > > Hi this is me again I have a last question : > > So I'm gonna install monday a linux RH 6.

RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance

2000-06-23 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Hugh Bragg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:36 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance > [snip] > > > What version of raidtools shoul

RE: autostart with raid5 over raid0?

2000-06-21 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Carlos Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: autostart with raid5 over raid0? > > Hi all, > > I've been using raid5 with auto-detection for over a year without > problems. Everything in

RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance

2000-06-21 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Diegmueller, Jason (I.T. Dept) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:46 AM > To: 'Gregory Leblanc'; 'Hugh Bragg'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performa

RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance

2000-06-21 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Hugh Bragg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 5:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance > > Patch http://www.icon.fi/~mak/raid1/raid1readbalance-2.2.15-B2 > improves read performance right

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-20 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Gustavo Aguiar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 10:17 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc; linux-raid > Subject: Re: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi, > Does this means that I can't use Hardware Raid 5 on linux > (red

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Listas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:22 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: linux-raid > Subject: Re: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi, > > It is a AAA133 from adaptec. I didn't found any thing saying >

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Listas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 12:25 PM > To: linux-raid > Subject: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi All, > > I'm having a big problem trying to install a RedHat 6.2 with a raid 5 > made by hardware. A found > at the net som doc's that

RE: devfs? 2.2.14?

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Alfred de Wijn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:53 AM > To: Linux Raid mailing list > Subject: devfs? 2.2.14? > > So my question is: is there a patch for devfs-kernels? What > kernel version > is the latest patch against? > > I figu

RE: raid linear and chunk-size

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jure Pecar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 12:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: raid linear and chunk-size > > Hi all, > > Just noticed this while building some raid linear for my cd > toaster box: > Software-Raid-HOWTO, shipp

RE: raid 0, dev/hd? too small (0kb) error in RH 6.2

2000-06-17 Thread Gregory Leblanc
First, have you read the Software RAID HOWTO? If not, you can find it here: http://www.LinuxDoc.org/ > -Original Message- > From: Fred Chavez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 5:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: raid 0, dev/hd? too small (0kb) error in R

RE: thanks, apologia

2000-06-16 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jazalamadingdong Yo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: thanks, apologia > > thank you very much. I was literally under the impression > that I was the > only person in

RE: Am I the only one?

2000-06-16 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jazalamadingdong Yo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Am I the only one? > > Finding info on the software RAID in linux has been a bitch! > Well, I guess > there is a lot out there, but it's

RE: Linux new style software RAID recovery procedures

2000-06-15 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Darren Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:21 AM > To: Linux-Raid > Subject: Linux new style software RAID recovery procedures > > H would like to elaborate on this in the FAQ, thought i'd better > make sure I understand the

RE: 2.2.16 RAID patch

2000-06-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 2.2.16 RAID patch > > > the latest 2.2 (production) RAID code against 2.2.16-final > can be found > > at: > >

RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance

2000-06-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:26 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance > > Gregory Leblanc wrote: > >

RE: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance

2000-06-13 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 3:56 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Benchmarks, raid1 (was raid0) performance > > Gregory Leblanc wrote: > &

RE: Benchmarks, raid0 performance, 1,2,3,4 drives

2000-06-13 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: bug1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Benchmarks, raid0 performance, 1,2,3,4 drives > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > could you send me your /etc/raidtab? I've teste

RE: RAID0 problems

2000-06-12 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jordan Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RAID0 problems > > I have a few problems regarding my software RAID0 solution. > I have two > disks, hdb and hdd, on a raid0 array. Everything

RE: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics

2000-06-09 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 12:46 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics > > > [Gregory Leblanc] > > > [roo

RE: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics

2000-06-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Darren Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:16 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics > > Hi Greg, > > Yeah I know sorry about t

RE: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics

2000-06-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Darren Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: bonnie++ for RAID5 performance statistics > > I guess this kind of thing would be great to be detailed in the FAQ. Did you try reading the arch

RE: how should I set up swap?

2000-06-01 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Luca Berra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how should I set up swap? > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:26:24PM +0100, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: > > The solution I used (for maximum resil

RE: RAID 1+0

2000-06-01 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:29 AM > To: Corin Hartland-Swann > Cc: Theo Van Dinter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RAID 1+0 > > On Thursday June 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Theo, > > > > On Wed, 31 May 20

RE: how should I set up swap?

2000-06-01 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Gavin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:35 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: how should I set up swap? > > Hi, > > got raid working, got lilo all set up, now how should I set up swap in > /etc/fstab? > > I have 2 scsi

RE: Installing another SCSI controller

2000-05-30 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Wreski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Installing another SCSI controller > > Hi all. I've got raid0 working fine between three 9G scsi disks. I'd > like to add an aha152x to drive a CD

RE: Any distro with automated raid setup?

2000-05-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Try RedHat 6.2 or 6.1. I've installed both onto a computer with dual 2GB SCSI drives in a RAID1. I wouldn't use anything else for /boot (assuming that's where you keep everything boot-related). I never use a RAM disk for essential things like SCSI drivers and RAID code, so that's not an issue f

RE: HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I started seeing this when I blew away my RAID0 arrays and put RAID1 arrays on my home machine. I suspect that this is cause by RedHat putting something in the initscripts to start the RAID arrays AND the RAID slices being set to type fd (RAID autodetect), but I haven't been able to confirm this.

RE: Problems creating RAID-1 on Linux 2.2.15/Sparc64

2000-05-28 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Why didn't this get integrated generically into the 2.2.15 patch? It's been a known "feature" for a while. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Ion Badulescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 3:18 PM > To: Gustav > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problems

RE: disk partiton type

2000-05-26 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jieming Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: disk partiton type > > Hello there, > > I have 2 SCSI disks with the following configuration (running > Redhat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5-15): > > /et

RE: 2.2.15 with raid-0.9

2000-05-24 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Yes, Ingo Molar has a patch for 2.2.15 at http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ Greg > -Original Message- > From: Sangohn Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 5:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 2.2.15 with raid-0.9 > > > Do I have to patch the new

RE: Archives

2000-05-23 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Two places, one posted just a little while ago. http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-raid/ Greg > -Original Message- > From: Ron Brinker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A

RE: ICP vortex vs. mylex

2000-05-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Adrian Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: ICP vortex vs. mylex > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Christian Robottom Reis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thur

RE: Is there a size limit in linear mode?

2000-05-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher "C.J." Keist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is there a size limit in linear mode? > > Hello, > Looking for some help/advice. I'm trying to append three logical > drives defi

RE: help interpret tiobench.pl results?

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help interpret tiobench.pl results? > > I get: > > File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write Rand > Write > DirSi

RE: md0 won't let go... (dmesg dump...)

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:10 AM > To: m. allan noah; James Manning > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... (dmesg dump...) > > on 5/17/00 8:30 AM, m. allan noah at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [sn

RE: How to test raid5 performance best ?

2000-05-15 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: octave klaba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:25 AM > To: Thomas Scholten > Cc: Linux Raid Mailingliste > Subject: Re: How to test raid5 performance best ? > > > 1. Which tools should i use to test raid-performace ? > tiotest. > I lost

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:20 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > > on 5/10/00 3:59 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:46 PM > To: James Manning > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Are you cla

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:27 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > on 5/10/00 3:00 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:56 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > > on 5/10/00 2:08 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: md0 won't let go... > > Problem: I compiled RAID patches properly into the recent > 2.2.15 kernel. I > have TWO IDE controllers (Promise & HPT366)

RE: RAID and new kernels, FYI

2000-05-06 Thread Gregory Leblanc
RedHat has a lot of patched in the kernel already. Take a look at the kernel source RPMs. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RAID and new kernels, FYI > > > The

RE: Software-RAID and new Kernel -> Patch?

2000-05-06 Thread Gregory Leblanc
First, check out the Software-RAID-HOWTO at http://www.LinuxDoc.org/ > -Original Message- > From: Andreas ~ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 4:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Software-RAID and new Kernel -> Patch? > > Sorry if this question has already

RE: IDE Controllers

2000-05-05 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Andre Hedrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:59 PM > To: Gary E. Miller > Cc: Linux Kernel; Linux RAID > Subject: Re: IDE Controllers > > What you do not know is that there will be a drive int the futre that > will have a native SCSI

RE: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-05-05 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Robinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:31 PM > To: Christopher E. Brown > Cc: Chris Mauritz; bug1; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: performance limitations of linux raid > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Christopher E. Brown wrote:

RE: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-05-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Carruth, Rusty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: performance limitations of linux raid > > > The primary limitation is probably the rotational speed of > the disks and > > how fast you ca

RE: Raid 0.90 patch against 2.2.15

2000-05-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I haven't looked at 2.2.15, but the patch for 2.2.14 is at http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ Greg > -Original Message- > From: A James Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 7:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Raid 0.90 patch against 2.2.15 > > > > H

RE: Fastest / Most stable way to get >2GB files in 2.2?

2000-05-01 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fastest / Most stable way to get >2GB files in 2.2? > > I have a MySQL database, running on SW RAID-0 over ext2, that wants to > grow beyond t

RE: lilo: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0905

2000-04-30 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:57 PM > To: Martin Munt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: lilo: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0905 > [snip] > > What next? I'm booting from floppy now :( > > That's

RE: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-25 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Roesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 3:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: performance limitations of linux raid > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:28:46PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > > Clue: the Promise IDE RAID cont

RE: stability of 0.90

2000-04-25 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: stability of 0.90 > > > I've been running raid1 (kernel 2.0, then 2.2) on a > fileserver for over a > year now. I have suddenly seen the

RE: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-24 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Scott M. Ransom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 6:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gregory Leblanc; bug1 > Subject: RE: performance limitations of linux raid > >

RE: celeron vs k6-2

2000-04-24 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Seth Vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 2:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: celeron vs k6-2 > > > Hi folks, > I did some tests comparing a k6-2 500 vs a celeron 400 - on a raid5 > system - found some interesting results >

RE: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-24 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Mauritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 2:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: performance limitations of linux raid > > > There's "specs" and then there's real life. I have never > seen a hard driv

RE: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000?

2000-04-22 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Agus Budy Wuysang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:11 AM > To: Leonard N. Zubkoff > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000? > > "Leonard N. Zubkoff" wrote: > > > > From: "List User" <[EMAIL PR

RE: debian software raid

2000-04-20 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Take a look at the Software RAID HOWTO, which can be found at http://www.LinuxDoc.org/. It has lots of great Software RAID information. Greg > -Original Message- > From: fnijen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: Which raid version?

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Vinny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:22 PM > To: Linux Raid > Subject: Which raid version? > > Out of curiosity, > which raid version comes with RedHat 6.2? > 0.90 or the new mingo stuff? They are the same thing, the "new mingo

RE: adaptec 2940u2w hangups

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangups > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Chris Mauritz wrote: > > > Also, make sure you have active (not passive) terminati

RE: adaptec 2940u2w hangups

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangups > > You're problems occur only with RAID and the 2940U2W? > > I was told it should be a SCSI

RE: panic: B_FREE inserted into queues on kernel 2.2.14

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Carruth, Rusty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:03 AM > To: 'raid' > Subject: panic: B_FREE inserted into queues on kernel 2.2.14 > > I hope that this is not my second post to this list, if so I > apologize! > (I went and looked at

RE: PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts!

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
You'll need to patch you kernel with the patches from http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/, probably. I don't think RAID 0.90 has been integrated into 2.2.15pre Greg > -Original Message- > From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: mkraid /dev/md0;; appears to have ext2 filesystem...

2000-04-17 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Jason Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:11 PM > To: The coolest guy you know; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mkraid /dev/md0;; appears to have ext2 filesystem... > > Hi everyone: > I think I got a better

RE: Fw: Adaptec AAA-133U2 Raid Controller support

2000-04-16 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 3:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fw: Adaptec AAA-133U2 Raid Controller support > > Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > > To add a little more detail,

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