RE: my sunday afternoon nightmare (raid crash)

1999-11-23 Thread Michael Cunningham
Matthew, There are no really established certs yet..although a few are underway. I think redhat is actually doing certs. At least thats what I read on another mailing list. I think what you should look for is a good UNIX admin who loves linux but might not do it as his primary job responsibility

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Michael Cunningham
> This should be clarified in the docs alright... > > If you run two bonnies you will see that your read performance gets better > (well the sum of the read performance will be superior to that of one disk). > > RAID-1 will distribute reads to the two disks, but it's not a gain if you > only rea

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Michael Cunningham
> What is your chunk size set at in the raidtab file? In my testing, I've 4k chunk size is what i use as well. > this isn't to say that there aren't room for improvements in software raid > performance, as even with a 4k chunksize performance will level off after > four drives, eventually dropp

Re: fsck and raid 1 more info

1999-10-28 Thread Michael Cunningham
> 1) creating the raid device > 2) creating a new filesystem on the raid device using mke2fs Ahh, boy I feel dumb now:) Musta missed that tidbit in the howto:) Thanks.. Mike -- Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

fsck and raid 1 more info

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Cunningham
Here are the actual messages that fsck spits out when the system boots.. well basically the same. I am just running it manually here. [root@server1 /]# fsck /dev/md0 Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999) e2fsck 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 The filesystem size (according to

fsck and raid 1

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Cunningham
I just rebooted my system for the first time automatically mounting up md0 through fstab. and I got a fsck failure on the md0 device. I made sure i let it totally sync before rebooting so I am not sure whats wrong. It was great until fsck ran against it. It seems that the parition table and the s

raid performance? good?

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Cunningham
Is this good software raid performance for a Dual celeron 500 mhz 128 mb ram abit bp6 mb using the htp66 controller in dma 33 mode 2 x 18 gig ibm dma 33 drives Running kernel 2.2.13ac1, big ide patch (latest as of today), 2.2.14pre1 as well.. Its a raid 1 mirror with each disk alone on its own i

simple question

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Cunningham
I am sure this is probably obvious but I wanna make sure:) I have a raid 1 setup using two ide disks. I am not booting from these disks. The RAID seems to be working GREAT so far:) I assume I should just put a normal entry in the fstab right? /dev/md0 /data ext2defaults