Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote: http://www.raid-calculator.com/ https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/raid Thank you, Randy. Rich

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Randy Bush
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Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: This is normal. mdraid works at the kernel/device driver level. It will keep doing its thing as long as the system is up. Even if you were to shut it down, it would pick up where it left off upon rebooting. BTW, what you are seeing is likely not a process,

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, John Jason Jordan wrote: That is sort of true. With two physical disks RAID0 turns them into one device. In theory your OS reads/writes to both at the same time, speeding things up by a factor of two. In reality the speedup is far less than two. And since both disks have been

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: >My limited understanding of RAIDs is that striping would increase >writing speed but lose the redundance of the hdds themselves. Am I >mistaken? That is sort of true. With two physical disks RAID

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Galen Seitz
On 2/4/22 13:47, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Looking at /proc/mdstat I see that it's chugging away while root returned to its shell prompt in 8 seconds. /proc/mdst

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Looking at /proc/mdstat I see that it's chugging away while root returned to its shell prompt in 8 seconds. /proc/mdstat tells me that 'resync = 1.8% (3703084

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: Yep, lsblk doesn't show dev/md1. I'm creating the RAID1 anew. The linux RAID how-to I'm following says to create a RAID0 (stripe) after, but it also has instrucions for creating a RAID5 if there are 3 or more disks in the array. My limited understanding

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Galen Seitz wrote: Look at the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". mdraid may still be working to build the RAID1 array. Galen, Thank you. I assumed the process was finished when the vt returned to the shell. I rebooted the host so I guess I'll start over and rebuild the raid i

Re: [PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Galen Seitz
On 2/4/22 12:12, Rich Shepard wrote: After creating the RAID1 /dev/md1 I installed the file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1 This ran for a few hours (2 x 2T hard drives in the array). Then root's shell prompt returned. However, the lights on the RAID enclosure keep flickering and gkrellm shows both u

[PLUG] usb-storage process continues to run

2022-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
After creating the RAID1 /dev/md1 I installed the file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1 This ran for a few hours (2 x 2T hard drives in the array). Then root's shell prompt returned. However, the lights on the RAID enclosure keep flickering and gkrellm shows both user and system activities on the disks