Re: Replacing disks in RAID

1999-12-20 Thread Urban Petry
Hi Jakob, > 6. Reconstruction > If you've read the rest of this HOWTO, you should already have a pretty good > idea about what reconstruction of a degraded RAID involves. I'll summarize: > Power down the system > Replace the failed disk > Power up the system once again. > Use ra

Re: Swapping onto raid1 device?

1998-11-19 Thread Urban Petry
> This increases performance of the swap space, but that's not my goal. > I want the machine to stay up if a disk fails. If there's swap space in > use on that failed drive, we're going down. I experienced the same problems with soft-raid1 a few weeks ago. The solution (well, it's more a worka

crashes with swap on raid1 (raid0145-19981005-C-2.0.35.gz & raidtools 0.90)

1998-10-11 Thread Urban Petry
Hi everone (Ingo ? :-) I experience severe problems with the above raid patches and putting swap on a raid1 array (Pentium 233 MMX, 64 MB RAM, 2940UW, 2 UW IBM DDRS 4 GB scsi disks). The system crashes consistently under heavy load (bonnie, exorcist etc.) while running fine for 3 days under (a