New raid patches for 2.2.9 kernel?

1999-05-15 Thread Steve Costaras
the status on when the current raid code will be included in the general kernel releases? Steve -- Steve Costaras Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celestial Haven Ph: (630) 852-9765 FAX: (630) 852-9263 - If you don't understand, read

Re: Swap on raid

1999-05-09 Thread Steve Costaras
Actually, this is no longer true with the current kernels raidtools patch. Swaping on to a RAID device is ok. I have several systems here currently doing it on RAID-1 devices without any problems whatsoever. Steve - Original Message - From: Gulcu Ceki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Swap on raid

1999-05-09 Thread Steve Costaras
Perfect sense if you want a HA (High Availability) system. In the case here I don't want the system failing if a disk dies on me. All volumes here are on one form of RAID or another. Which gives me the opportunity to swap out a bad disk at MY convince instead of being screwed when a disk dies

Which disks for high random seeks?

1999-05-05 Thread Steve Costaras
/sec. Does anyone have any figures on drives that might be able to do this? If I can avoid paying through the nose for the cheetahs, and instead of the newer barracuda's can do this it would save several hundred bucks. Steve -- Steve Costaras Unix

RAID+devfs patch for new kernel?

1999-05-01 Thread Steve Costaras
Does anyone know, or is anyone working on a new combined patch for the kernel (2.2.6 or 2.2.7) for both RAID devfs? The last one I've seen is for 2.2.3.. Steve -- Steve Costaras Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celestial Haven Ph

Global hot-spare disk?

1999-04-25 Thread Steve Costaras
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Misc Problems observations w/ current RAID code

1999-04-25 Thread Steve Costaras
). Any comments/heckles? Steve -- Steve Costaras Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celestial Haven Ph: (630) 852-9765 FAX: (630) 852-9263 - If you don't understand, read the RFC's. If you do, re-write them. HTTP://3502543125/rfcs --

BOOT RAID information?

1999-04-24 Thread Steve Costaras
in the Mylex's (BT-958's) BIOS) The system didn't even load lilo said it couldn't find a system disk. Hmm. Anyone have any pointers here? Things were going reall good, didn't want to stop here. Steve -- Steve Costaras Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL

Q: on root/swap mirroring

1999-03-19 Thread Steve Costaras
I've recently had a chance to set up some root mirroring under Solaris (v2.6 7) using DiskSuite. In Sun's setup they have to specify a partition (small one like 8-10mb) for a metatable database to help point to partitions to boot from as well as general mapping information. I'm not that