Re: newbie questions: about raid

1999-06-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I'd have a look at: http://linas.org/linux/raid.html the answers to all your questions - and the ones you're going to ask once these ones are answered :) - are there... good luck! cheers, dan. At 8:47 AM +0800 11/6/99, McCoy wrote: >Hi, > >I have some question about raid: > >1. what is

newbie questions: about raid

1999-06-10 Thread McCoy
Hi, I have some question about raid: 1. what is raid? 2. why we use raid? 3. what 's mean raid 0, raid 0/1, raid 1, raid 4 and raid 5? I 'm new to raid and I have downloaded some howto and raid tools. But I still have some confuse that whether raid is only the method to make many disks an array

Re: Newbie questions...

1999-05-23 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Mike Frisch wrote: > > First off, is there a FAQ or home page for this mailing list? > Hm, I think it is mirrored at linux.com or linux.org (also look at linuxhq) > What is the behaviour when a drive fails in a RAID 1 configuration using > the built-in software RAID? If it is taken offlin

Re: Newbie questions...

1999-05-20 Thread Erich J. Ritzmann
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mike Frisch wrote: > First off, is there a FAQ or home page for this mailing list? When I first joined this list back in Feb, I was given the following: http://www.linas.org/linux/raid.html http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html Th

Newbie questions...

1999-05-18 Thread Mike Frisch
First off, is there a FAQ or home page for this mailing list? What is the behaviour when a drive fails in a RAID 1 configuration using the built-in software RAID? If it is taken offline, is the other drive's 'image' enough to sustain the array? (ie. will the system continue to run with one of t

Re: RAID5 Newbie Questions

1998-10-15 Thread kwrohrer
And lo, Gadi Oxman saith unto me: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I've been running raid-0 and linear modes on a disk array for some time. This > > works really well! (I guess you allready knew :) > > > > Now, I moved the disks (six quantum fireball 6

Re: RAID5 Newbie Questions

1998-10-15 Thread Gadi Oxman
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:01:43PM +0300, Gadi Oxman wrote: > ... > > Ouch.. 100KB/sec on block writes is indeed unusable; strange, as we > > usually score very well on bonnie's block-writes. > > > > Does it happen consistently on each run? Does one

Re: RAID5 Newbie Questions

1998-10-15 Thread jakob
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:01:43PM +0300, Gadi Oxman wrote: ... > Ouch.. 100KB/sec on block writes is indeed unusable; strange, as we > usually score very well on bonnie's block-writes. > > Does it happen consistently on each run? Does one of the drives in the > RAID array also contains an active

Re: RAID5 Newbie Questions

1998-10-14 Thread Gadi Oxman
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > > I've been running raid-0 and linear modes on a disk array for some time. This > works really well! (I guess you allready knew :) > > Now, I moved the disks (six quantum fireball 6 GB scsi on two ncr53c810 controllers, > three disks o

RAID5 Newbie Questions

1998-10-13 Thread jakob
Hi all! I've been running raid-0 and linear modes on a disk array for some time. This works really well! (I guess you allready knew :) Now, I moved the disks (six quantum fireball 6 GB scsi on two ncr53c810 controllers, three disks on each), into another machine and wanted to run RAID-5 on t