more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-21 Thread Tod Detre
Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. I'm Trying to make a 8 disk raid5 array and I'm having problems. Every time I mkraid it get part way through and crashes the machine. It must not be a hard crash because softdog catches it and reboots the machine. I get no

Is this possible/feasible

1998-10-18 Thread Tod Detre
in 2.1 kernels you can mak nfs a block device. raid can work with block devices so if you raid5 several nfs computers one can go down, but you still can go on. 8-) just an idea -- Tod Detre |"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at | least find you ha