Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:39, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:32, "Donovan Baarda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Writing an algorithm to do this would not be difficult at all. The problem is > fitting it into the overall design of the system. > > I could write a sample program

Re: status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

2004-09-13 Thread Frode Haugsgjerd
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Andreas John wrote: > Hi! - > problem with VLANs through a trunk AFAIR. BTW: Could anyone point out > what happens in practice when one cable/port in the trunk dies? Is > trunking redundant? hot failover?) - If you by trunking mean the bonding module, yes

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:32, "Donovan Baarda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ummm... Bit confused here, but RAID 1 is not faster, than a single disk. > > RAID one is just for 'safety' purposes. Yes, you do have 2 disks, but > > in an > > ideal world, they will both be synced with one another, and bot

RE: Squid auth - allow destinations upon username

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Dörnbach
> I'm trying to set up a Squid with authentication based on ncsa_auth > ... > which actually works so far. What I'm trying to get now is to group > some users together in, say, two groups, one privileged to surf > everywhere and another restricted to only a handfull of destinations. Never mind,

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:39, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I really substantiate my assumtption, Russel's right, in theory: in > RAID1, you *do* have 2 disks, so reading 2 independent files *should* be > possible without too much seeking. > > But OTOH you mi

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:20, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Machines that can handle such an IO load have faster CPUs. So for any > > but the very biggest machines there is no chance of CPU performance being > > a problem for RAID-5. > > You certainly have more

Squid auth - allow destinations upon username

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Dörnbach
Hi, I'm trying to set up a Squid with authentication based on ncsa_auth ... which actually works so far. What I'm trying to get now is to group some users together in, say, two groups, one privileged to surf everywhere and another restricted to only a handfull of destinations. Is that possible w

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Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day again, From: "Andrew Miehs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > Ummm... Bit confused here, but RAID 1 is not faster, than a single disk. > RAID one is just for 'safety' purposes. Yes, you do have 2 disks, but > in an > ideal world, they will both be synced with one another, and both be > doing > exa

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:55, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have benchmark results to support this assertion? Last time I > > tested the performance of software RAID-1 on Linux I was unable to get > > anywhere near 2x disk speed for writing. I did tests by reading two > > file

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:39, Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ummm... Bit confused here, but RAID 1 is not faster, than a single disk. RAID-1 in the strict definition has two disks with the same data. In the modern loose definition it means two or more disks with the same data (maybe 3 d

RFA: libcrypt-hcesha-perl -- Perl extension for one way hash chaining encryption using SHA

2004-09-13 Thread ivan-debian
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the libcrypt-hcesha-perl package. It is primarily of interest as a dependancy of the OpenSRS client code for domain registrations (see Bug#146456). There are no serious problems with the package, it should be fine for sarge. Eventually it