Re: [PATCH v2] raid1 balancing

1999-09-19 Thread CJones
Gadi Oxman wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote: [ Saturday, September 18, 1999 ] James Manning wrote: Ok, I wrote a patch that passes the ctl_table pointer of /proc/dev/md as the param for raid?_init, but noticed differing opinions on return values (although it doesn't

Re: [PATCH v2] raid1 balancing

1999-09-19 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, September 19, 1999 ] CJones wrote: Gadi Oxman wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote: Well, I tried booting and it died with some SYSCTL() errors (figures :) so if it looks like the patch at least has the right idea, let me know and I'll try fixing up the

Re: [PATCH] adjustable raid1 balancing (was Re: Slower read accesson RAID-1 than regular partition)

1999-09-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote: Since the previous sysctl code had been ripped out, this was pretty James, are you patching against the latest RAID source? 2.3.18 has a painfully outdated RAID driver. (i'm working on porting the newest stuff to 2.3 right now) simple, just pulling

Re: [PATCH] adjustable raid1 balancing (was Re: Slower read access on RAID-1 than regular partition)

1999-09-18 Thread James Manning
[ Saturday, September 18, 1999 ] Ingo Molnar wrote: James, are you patching against the latest RAID source? 2.3.18 has a painfully outdated RAID driver. (i'm working on porting the newest stuff to 2.3 right now) I guess so... I needed 2.3.1[78] for a third-party binary-only module, but

[PATCH v2] raid1 balancing

1999-09-18 Thread James Manning
Ok, I wrote a patch that passes the ctl_table pointer of /proc/dev/md as the param for raid?_init, but noticed differing opinions on return values (although it doesn't much matter) [root@jmm block]# grep raid._init *.c|grep -v return md.c:void raid0_init (void); md.c:void raid1_init (void);

Re: [PATCH v2] raid1 balancing

1999-09-18 Thread Gadi Oxman
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote: [ Saturday, September 18, 1999 ] James Manning wrote: Ok, I wrote a patch that passes the ctl_table pointer of /proc/dev/md as the param for raid?_init, but noticed differing opinions on return values (although it doesn't much matter) [snip]

[PATCH] adjustable raid1 balancing (was Re: Slower read access on RAID-1 than regular partition)

1999-09-17 Thread James Manning
[ Thursday, September 16, 1999 ] James Manning wrote: Lingering question: - Can the 128 sector count for switching be changed safely? if so, I'd love to see something in /proc I could echo a new number into to tune the disk switching to my particular access patterns... Since the

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread mingo
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote: This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot partition with a kernel on it and a larger (RAID1)

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread Thomas Seidel
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:40:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote: This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread Paul Jimenez
On Thursday, Sep 9, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote: This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:51:23AM +0200, Jakob Østergaard wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:40:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote: This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it calls md_stop() on all RAID

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:15:09PM +0001, Thomas Seidel wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm sort of wondering, because I've had a lot of luck with older versions, and would hate to upgrade all the boxes if it's not necessary :) I agree with you. I posted

PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-08 Thread Paul Jimenez
This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot partition with a kernel on it and a larger (RAID1) partition that's /. I'm a bit paranoid, so