Re: more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-23 Thread James Blanding
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Tod Detre wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:51:02 -0400 > From: Tod Detre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: more than 4 disks on raid5? > > Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. > > > I'm Trying to make a 8 disk raid

Re: RAID0 and RedHat 6.0

1999-05-20 Thread James Blanding
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:05:15 +0200 (CEST) > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Robert McPeak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RAID0 and RedHat 6.0 > > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Robert McPeak wrote: > > > Here are th

[possibly OT question] /proc/mdstat

1999-05-19 Thread James Blanding
write something that will parse /proc/mdstat and produce out readable by less knowledgable people...(unless something like this is already under development??) much appreciated, james blanding

does raid1 consider one drive to be 'primary'?

1999-05-19 Thread James Blanding
;trusted' (ie not corrupt) partition. now that everything lives in the kernel, i dont see how that would be possible. i tried using raidhot but since the corrupted disks are still listed as active, removing fails. perhaps this is a feature, but im just wondering what the logic behind it is... any i