Re: FAQ

2000-08-04 Thread Tim Walberg
On 08/04/2000 09:54 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> The usual suggestion is: >> >> bzip2 -dc | tar -xf - >> or use bzcat, which is exactly the same as bzip2 -dc... -- +--+----------+ | Tim Walbe

Re: problem: unexpected inconsistency

2000-04-12 Thread Tim Walberg
i did 'fsck /dev/md4' but it did'nt help... >> >> >> thanks in advance, >> patrick End of included message -- +--+--+ | Tim Walberg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 828 Marshall Ct. | www.concentric.net/~twalberg | | Palatine, IL 60074 | | +--+--+ PGP signature

Re: autorun

1999-10-27 Thread Tim Walberg
e any reference to "fd" when I list the Hex codes (fdisk v2.9n) >> To quote a popular shoe maker... "Just do it". Never mind that fd isn't in the list; when it asks for the new partition type, type in '0xfd'. tw --

Re: RAID controllers under Linux...

1999-10-18 Thread Tim Walberg
uggesting that - just shoot me now...). tw -- +--+--+ | Tim Walberg | Phone: 847-782-2472 | | TERAbridge Technologies Corp | FAX: 847-623-1717 | | 1375 Tri-State Parkway | [EM

Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-14 Thread Tim Walberg
>> >> You've got it. >> >> I don't know of any Unix FS with dynamic inode allocation.. Is there >> one? >> Veritas' VxFS does, but, alas, there's no Linux port. Works great on Solaris, though.

Re: resync after disk failure

1999-10-12 Thread Tim Walberg
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Re: how to properly setup level 10?

1999-09-10 Thread Tim Walberg
27;t have a raidtab to send you, 'cause I've never built a Linux box big enough to need either option - I've only ever used two drives at a time so far.) tw -- +--+--+ | Tim Walberg

Re: feasibility question

1999-09-07 Thread Tim Walberg
On 09/04/1999 10:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Tim Walberg wrote: >> >> > I want to mirror the NT partition when I'm running Linux. >> > Obviously, the mirror will be broken when I boot under NT,

feasibility question

1999-09-03 Thread Tim Walberg
scenario? tw -- +------+--+ | Tim Walberg | Phone: 847-782-2472 | | TERAbridge Technologies Corp | FAX: 847-623-1717 | | 1375 Tri-State Parkway | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Gurnee, IL 6003

Re: Booting Root RAID 1 Directly _Is_ Possible

1999-08-23 Thread Tim Walberg
nt, but hopefully that's a **very** rare occurrence. tw -- +----------+--+ | Tim Walberg | Phone: 847-782-2472 | | TERAbridge Technologies Corp | FAX: 847-623-1717 | | 1375 Tri-State Parkway

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Walberg
aching and write gathering algorithms. I don't know if there's a big enough difference to worry about, but I don't know there isn't either. That's why I always recommend benchmarking several different configs. I still think 2-4 are sufficiently different, though - 2 and 3 a

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Walberg
or you - I've done this before (but using Solaris/SPARC with Veritas Volume Manager, and at a previous job - I don't have access to that kinda stuff at the moment). I/O optimization was pretty much my sole purpose for living for a year or two... ;o) tw

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-30 Thread Tim Walberg
k as what you're going to use in production). Hope that's useful tw -- +----------+--+ | Tim Walberg | Phone: 847-782-2472 | | TERAbridge Technologies Corp | FAX: 847-623-1717

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-29 Thread Tim Walberg
hich just makes the whole analysis that much more complex... Hope that's useful info to someone... (Also hope I haven't goofed something up there... ;-> ) tw -- +--+--+ | Tim Walberg | P

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-29 Thread Tim Walberg
ay not be everyone's usual case, but it does happen. This is one of the reasons I will personally not recommend putting a very busy news server on RAID5 - the expires can easily kill a machine. tw -- +----------+--+ | Tim Wa

Re: raid0 vs. raid5 read performance

1999-07-29 Thread Tim Walberg
>> time to try fixing that problem, but for now uniprocessor is ok for >> my testing. >> >> On a Pentium II/400 I get ~60MB/s reading a file with raid0 on 6 drives, >> but <40MB/s with raid5 on 8 drives. >> >> Thanks, >&