Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 19:46:51 -0800 wes dijo: >If you create the RAID array with UUIDs, it (probably) won't break when >your system renames devices. Brilliant! ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread wes
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:36 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > It's nice to know that you can get the UUID from /dev/disk, but there > is also a command (that I have forgotten) to get the UUID. For a long > time I used LABEL= for mounting, where I had give the partition a > label. Labels are great,

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:49:21 -0800 wes dijo: >On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:32 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> I have long been aware that drive labeling like sda, sdb, etc. can >> annoyingly swap around. Apparently NVMe drives can be just as >> exasperating. >Do you have a /dev/disk directory? If

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread wes
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:32 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have long been aware that drive labeling like sda, sdb, etc. can > annoyingly swap around. Apparently NVMe drives can be just as > exasperating. > > Do you have a /dev/disk directory? If so, within it you should find various ways of

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:07:45 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: > smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 OK, this is really weird. All this time nvme0 has been the 1TB m.2 Samsung drive inside the Thinkpad, which holds / and /home. I was amazed when I ran the command exactly as above and it said the drive was a 7.68TB

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread Ben Koenig
On 2/2/21 3:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 05:50:57 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: And one more thought: I'd consider LVM instead of RAID0. But whatever system I set up, I need the four 7.68TB NVMe drives to appear as one

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 05:50:57 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> And one more thought: I'd consider LVM instead of RAID0. But whatever >> system I set up, I need the four 7.68TB NVMe drives to appear as one >> big-ass 31TB drive. >That's what LVM

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread Ben Koenig
On 2/2/21 12:31 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:09:06 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:09:06 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 >Ben Koenig dijo: > >>A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is >>doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of >>devices, like so >> >>1) unplug your TB-3

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread Ben Koenig
On 2/2/21 12:09 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of devices, like so 1) unplug your TB-3 drives and reboot. 2)

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: >A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is >doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of >devices, like so > >1) unplug your TB-3 drives and reboot. > >2) record the output of 'ls -l /dev/nvme*' here

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: And one more thought: I'd consider LVM instead of RAID0. But whatever system I set up, I need the four 7.68TB NVMe drives to appear as one big-ass 31TB drive. John, That's what LVM does. You have four physical drives. They can be collected into

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

2021-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: >On 2/1/21 11:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 22:15:12 -0800 >> Ben Koenig dijo: >> Perhaps now would be the time to dig out those old emails and consider some of the native alternatives rejected in favor of