Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Its a nice complicated case of semaphores in threaded (multi process?) systems ... ... one system needs to be aware that the other system isn't ready yet, without causing incompatibilities. With RAID, would it be possible for the MD driver to actually accept the mount request but halt the

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-04 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Rainer Mager wrote: Hi all, I think my situation is the same as this "two failed disks" one but I haven't been following the thread carefully and I just want to double check. I have a mirrored RAID-1 setup between 2 disks with no spare disks.

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:44:49 +0200, you wrote: It _is_ in the docs. Which docs do you refer to? I must have missed this. Section 6.1 in http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ Didn't you actually mention it yourself ? :) (don't remember -

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:28:28 +0200, you wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:44:49 +0200, you wrote: It _is_ in the docs. Which docs do you refer to? I must have missed this. Section 6.1 in http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ Didn't you actually

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Marc Haber wrote: [snip] Yes, I did. However, I'd add a sentence mentioning that in this case mkraid probably won't be destructive to the HOWTO. After the mkraid warning, I aborted the procedure and started asking. I think this should be avoided in the future. I have

RE: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I think my situation is the same as this "two failed disks" one but I haven't been following the thread carefully and I just want to double check. I have a mirrored RAID-1 setup between 2 disks with no spare disks. Inadvertantly the machine got powered down without a

RE: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Michael Robinton
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Rainer Mager wrote: I think my situation is the same as this "two failed disks" one but I haven't been following the thread carefully and I just want to double check. I have a mirrored RAID-1 setup between 2 disks with no spare disks. Inadvertantly the

RE: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Rainer Mager
nt: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:50 AM To: Rainer Mager Cc: Jakob Ostergaard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Raid5 with two failed disks? Whether or not the array is in sync should not make a difference to the boot process. I have both raid1 and raid 5 systems that run root raid and will boot qu

RE: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-02 Thread Michael Robinton
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Raid5 with two failed disks? Whether or not the array is in sync should not make a difference to the boot process. I have both raid1 and raid 5 systems that run root raid and will boot quite nicely and rsync automatically after a "dumb" shutdown that lea

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-04-01 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:20:57 +0200, you wrote: At 02:16 30.03.00, you wrote: Hi... I have a Raid5 Array, using 4 IDE HDs. A few days ago, the system hung, no reaction, except ping from the host, nothing to see on the monitor. I rebooted the system and

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:17:06 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:36:52AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote: I've been thinking about this for a different project, how bad would it be to setup RAID 5 to allow for 2 (or more) failures in an array? Or is this handled under a different class of

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:20:57 +0200, you wrote: At 02:16 30.03.00, you wrote: Hi... I have a Raid5 Array, using 4 IDE HDs. A few days ago, the system hung, no reaction, except ping from the host, nothing to see on the monitor. I rebooted the system and it told me, 2 out of 4 disks were out of

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Martin Bene wrote: At 02:16 30.03.00, you wrote: Hi... I have a Raid5 Array, using 4 IDE HDs. A few days ago, the system hung, no reaction, except ping from the host, nothing to see on the monitor. I rebooted the system and it told me, 2 out of 4 disks were out of sync.

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:36:52AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote: I've been thinking about this for a different project, how bad would it be to setup RAID 5 to allow for 2 (or more) failures in an array? Or is this handled under a different class of RAID (ignoring things like RAID 5 over mirrored

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Tmm
Thanks to all, it worked!

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Sven Kirmess
Hi Bill, Thursday, March 30, 2000, 4:36:52 PM, you wrote: I've been thinking about this for a different project, how bad would it be to setup RAID 5 to allow for 2 (or more) failures in an array? Or is this handled under a different class of RAID (ignoring things like RAID 5 over mirrored

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:36:52AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote: I've been thinking about this for a different project, how bad would it be to setup RAID 5 to allow for 2 (or more) failures in an array? Or is this handled under a different class of

Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:21:45PM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote: 1+5 would still fail on 2 drives if those 2 drives where both from the same RAID 1 set. The wasted space becomes more than N/2, but it might worth it for the HA aspect. RAID 6 looks