Re: Software RAID blocks

Tom Bachreier wrote: > So it is most likely that I have a problem with the software raid or the > harddisks, isn't it? SMART is activated on all disks and does not show > any error. don't know exactly but I replaced all Seagate drives with WD - especially WD Red 2TB NAS (WD20EFRX). Now just order

Re: Software RAID blocks

Hi! On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > Last night I got a "blocked for more than 300 seconds." message in syslog - > see > > (link valid for 90 days). > > Log summary: > Jan 13 02:34:44 osprey ke

Re: Software RAID blocks

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > > Hi Reco! > > Jan 13, 2019, 1:47 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > > > >> Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by >> recovery...@enotuniq.net > >>

Re: Software RAID blocks

Hi Reco! Jan 13, 2019, 1:47 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > >> Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by >> recovery...@enotuniq.net >> >> : >> >> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote

Re: Software RAID blocks

Hi. On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:20:50PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > > Hi Reco! > > Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > > > >> TLDR; > >> My /home on dmcrypt -> software Raid5 blocks irregular usually

Re: Software RAID blocks

Hi Reco! Jan 13, 2019, 12:46 PM by recovery...@enotuniq.net: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > >> TLDR; >> My /home on dmcrypt -> software Raid5 blocks irregular usually without >> any error messages. >> >> I can get it going again with "fdisk -l /dev/sdx". >> >

Re: Software RAID blocks

Hi. On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:27:19PM +0100, Tom Bachreier wrote: > TLDR; > My /home on dmcrypt -> software Raid5 blocks irregular usually without > any error messages. > > I can get it going again with "fdisk -l /dev/sdx". > > Do you have an ideas how I can debug this issue further? Is

Re: software raid settings and ext4

On 01/24/17 8:56 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 24/01/2017 à 00:45, Miguel González a écrit : >> >> I´m running Proxmox 4.2 which is debian jessy with a software RAID of 2 >> Tb SATA disks of 7200 RPM in a dedicated server. >> >> I have set it up using OVH Proxmox installer with ext4. I have >>

Re: software raid settings and ext4

Le 24/01/2017 à 00:45, Miguel González a écrit : I´m running Proxmox 4.2 which is debian jessy with a software RAID of 2 Tb SATA disks of 7200 RPM in a dedicated server. I have set it up using OVH Proxmox installer with ext4. I have realized that another server with just one SATA disk has wr

Re: software raid settings and ext4

Miguel González composed on 2017-01-24 09:33 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Miguel González composed on 2017-01-24 00:45 (UTC+0100): .. Is there any way to improve the performance of ext4 both in the hosting proxmox server and the virtual machines? Who made those SATA cables, when, and a

Re: software raid settings and ext4

On 01/24/17 1:29 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Miguel González composed on 2017-01-24 00:45 (UTC+0100): > .. >> Is there any way to improve the performance of ext4 both in the hosting >> proxmox server and the virtual machines? > > Who made those SATA cables, when, and are they red? Have you tried oth

Re: software raid settings and ext4

Miguel González composed on 2017-01-24 00:45 (UTC+0100): ... Is there any way to improve the performance of ext4 both in the hosting proxmox server and the virtual machines? Who made those SATA cables, when, and are they red? Have you tried other cables? Subject: Re: SATA cables https://lists

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 01:45:43PM BST, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote: >> >> Given your posts, you're clearly confused... >> > >> > Would you care t

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 01:45:43PM BST, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote: > >> Given your posts, you're clearly confused... > > > > Would you care to elaborate? > > No. Please refrain from posts claiming th

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote: >> Given your posts, you're clearly confused... > > Would you care to elaborate? No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote: > Given your posts, you're clearly confused... Would you care to elaborate? -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:12:37PM BST, Tom H wrote: >> >> I'm sorry that I've confused you. I was just pointing out that the >> demarcation line between mdraid and dmraid isn't as straightforward as >> you made it out to be because mdadm (whic

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:12:37PM BST, Tom H wrote: > I'm sorry that I've confused you. I was just pointing out that the > demarcation line between mdraid and dmraid isn't as straightforward as > you made it out to be because mdadm (which is an mdraid tool) can be > used to manage dmraid arrays.

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29:14AM BST, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: >>> >>> dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing. >> >> Except for the fact that you can manage a dmraid array with mdadm >> (IIRC, you

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29:14AM BST, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > > > dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing. > > Except for the fact that you can manage a dmraid array with mdadm > (IIRC, you have to have "containers" on the "DEVICE" line in > "mdad

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing. Except for the fact that you can manage a dmraid array with mdadm (IIRC, you have to have "containers" on the "DEVICE" line in "mdadm.conf", but there may be more to it than that). -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

W dniu 18.10.2011 14:55, Raf Czlonka pisze: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14:58PM BST, Bartek W. aka Mastier wrote: Hi, I got two drives in RAID1 matrix, each one got 2 partitions, first boot also in raid, containg grub and such RAID or RAID array, not matrix. My question is, what if I connect

Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14:58PM BST, Bartek W. aka Mastier wrote: > Hi, > > I got two drives in RAID1 matrix, each one got 2 partitions, first > boot also in raid, containg grub and such RAID or RAID array, not matrix. > My question is, what if I connect the new drive and it will appear > as

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis >>  wrote: >>> >>> BTW, could someone explain the difference between >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT >>> and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/defa

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT appli

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT > and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT applies to the runlevel 2 entry and GRUB_CMDLINE_

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On 02/23/2011 02:22 PM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: I had solved this in lenny by using the following /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. Your solution seem

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: > I had solved this in lenny by using the following > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. > My solution is broken after the upgrade to squeeze and the problem > has regr

Re: Software raid OK?

2009/4/21 Sam Kuper : > Apologies for hijacking Bagi's thread! s/Bagi/Akos/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software raid OK?

2009/4/21 Alex Samad > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:08:22PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > Michael, > [snip] > > > > I don't think there is a silver bullet for this. > > > > There is a performance penalty related to soft-RAID. Also swa

Re: Software raid OK?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:08:22PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > Michael, > > [snip] > > I don't think there is a silver bullet for this. > > There is a performance penalty related to soft-RAID. Also swappiness > configuration mu

Re: Software raid OK?

When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > Michael, > > 2009/4/20 Michael Iatrou > > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > There is no particularly good reason to have the swa

Re: Software raid OK?

Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: Hi List! I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. I

Re: Software raid OK?

Michael, 2009/4/20 Michael Iatrou > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > There is no particularly good reason to have the swap on RAID. You > > > should define three independed swap partitions;

Re: Software raid OK?

When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a > > > spare.

Re: Software raid OK?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > > > I have 2 partitions: > > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 >

Re: Software raid OK?

When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > Hi List! > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > I have 2 partitions: > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 > md1 is for swap and made of sda2,sdb2, sdc2 There is no particularly good reas

Re: Software raid OK?

Le Monday 20 April 2009 11:44:31 BAGI Akos, vous avez écrit : > Hi List! > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > I have 2 partitions: > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 > md1 is for swap and made of sda2,sdb2, sdc2 > > - I can boot form both disk

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:26:25AM +, Kelly Harding wrote: > >> > >> Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 > >> to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 > >> degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple > >> ti

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

>> >> Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 >> to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 >> degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple >> times and had no problems with it. > > I thought it wasn't possible to conv

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:09:11AM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > I use partitions in my set-up for this reason, it makes it > _slightly_ more fool-proof. me 2 I would agree with this > > cheers, > Owen. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:22:08AM +, Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/2/26 Kelly Harding : > > 2009/2/25 Owen Townend : > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>> I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and > >>> ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the > >>>

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

2009/2/26 Kelly Harding : > 2009/2/25 Owen Townend : >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and >>> ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the >>> partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. >>> >>>

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

Hal Vaughan wrote: > I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and > ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the > partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. > > If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

On Wed February 25 2009 13:54:24 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and > ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the > partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. > > If I'm planning on using a drive

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:36:59PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?': > >On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > &

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Friday 05 December 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?': >On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: >> > > On Thurs

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Neil wrote: > > Note that the physical devices /dev/sda and /dev/sdb have UUIDs > > stored. How do I remove these UUIDs? > > > > You can't. The UUID is calculated out of the properties of the disk > (dunno wich exactly). It's like trying to remove the MD5

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:52:52PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > > On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > > > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to preven

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > > > the automatic detection from being confused again?

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Neil wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:15 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after switching from i386 to x86_64, my software RAID-1 partitions > > were not discovered automatically as they should have been. It seems > > that the physical d

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:15 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after switching from i386 to x86_64, my software RAID-1 partitions > were not discovered automatically as they should have been. It seems > that the physical devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) have UUIDs stored > from when I fir

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > > the automatic detection from being confused again? > > > Check out the --zero-superblock mode for mdadm. It is docume

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

> On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > the automatic detection from being confused again? > Check out the --zero-superblock mode for mdadm. It is documented in 'man 8 > mdadm'. cat:/home/lee# mdadm --zero-superblo

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > the automatic detection from being confused again? Check out the --zero-superblock mode for mdadm. It is documented in 'man 8 mdadm'. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                    

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:16:33AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > In other words, don't worry about it. I haven't heard of anybody having > difficulty. Since its a generic error message (the raid system doesn't > know the system is shuting down), its too bad that the sysvinit > maintainers don'

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:24:10AM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: > > I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a "Can't shut > down raid partition because it's busy" message on system shutdown. > > Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this somehow? > This questio

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

On Saturday December 22 2007 04:24:10 Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a > "Can't shut down raid partition because it's busy" message on > system shutdown. > > Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this > somehow? I wouldn't

Re: software raid on /

On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:45, Michael Ott wrote: > Hi! > > I have an box with raid1 for every partitions. But since a replace of a > harddisk the / partition will only use one disk. I can add the other > part using mdadm. > > Here my menu.lst > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-

Re: software RAID on mixed drive types (SATA/IDE)

Cameron Dale, > I was thinking of getting another disk and starting to use software > RAID (levels 1 and 5). I have 2 IDE disks on my 2 IDE buses, but my > motherboard also has 2 empty SATA connectors. I know putting more than > 1 RAID drive on a single IDE bus is not recommended, so I was thinki

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

On (29/12/05 21:07), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > Clive Menzies told: > > > > where is autostart? > > $ cat /etc/default/mdadm > > # This file is automatically generated. > # Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it. > START_DAEMON=true > MAIL_

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of Clive Menzies told: > where is autostart? $ cat /etc/default/mdadm # This file is automatically generated. # Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it. START_DAEMON=true MAIL_TO="root" AUTOSTART=true which gives instructions to /etc/init.d/mdadm

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

On (29/12/05 18:59), Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > I just posted how I fixed this here: > > > > add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules > > Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to > true. :-) where is autostart? > > BTW it works without loadin

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clive Menzies wrote: > I just posted how I fixed this here: > > add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules > > YMMV Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to true. :-) BTW it works without loading "ata_piix", is that for your in

Re: software RAID

Hi, Since we are talking about RAID I would like to ask ,how can I remove a raid 1 device. I had one md5 device which was a RAID-1 with 2 slices from 2 disks. I removed the one slice from md5 as it it described in the manual but I don't how I can remove the md5 device. Do I need to remove the /d

Re: software RAID

enediel gonzalez wrote: Hello I'm looking for information how to install software RAID1 on sarge, basically what I need is two identical hard disk all the time. I have an i386 with 2 SATA hard drives. Looking on internet I found some procedures to this kind of installation from scratch, but

Re: software RAID

On Thursday 08 December 2005 17:42, enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello > I'm looking for information how to install software RAID1 on sarge, > basically what I need is two identical hard disk all the time. > > I have an i386 with 2 SATA hard drives. > > Looking on internet I found some procedures to t

Re: software RAID

enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello > I'm looking for information how to install software RAID1 on sarge, > basically what I need is two identical hard disk all the time. > > I have an i386 with 2 SATA hard drives. > > Looking on internet I found some procedures to this kind of installation > from sc

Re: software RAID

On Thursday 08 December 2005 12:42 pm, enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello > I'm looking for information how to install software RAID1 on sarge, > basically what I need is two identical hard disk all the time. > > I have an i386 with 2 SATA hard drives. > > Looking on internet I found some procedures t

Re: Software raid 5 performance tuning?

hi ya marc On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Marc Dreher wrote: > after a recent (data) lossy HD crash I decided to build a software raid > 5 (3 disks)with Debian Sarge (2.6.13 Kernel) to keep that from > happening again :-) 3 disks in raid5 means 1/3 of the total disk space is not usable > Works pretty we

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] > [raid10] [faulty] > md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sde[4] sdf[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] > 1172229120 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya the only major piece of info that is missing: a) cat /proc/mdstat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] [faulty] md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sde[4] sdf[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] 11722291

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

hi ya the only major piece of info that is missing: a) cat /proc/mdstat b) what exactly was the commands you type vs the english explainations On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: > Sep 11 23:46:57 localhost kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! > Sep 11 2

Re: Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

> - have you evern wondered about other folks that try to build a sata-based > raid subsystem ?? > - how did their sata pass the "failed disk" test if it > reassigns its drive numbers upon reboot > > > With the second disk removed the disks names are changed, > > exactly that i

Re: Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm testing a server before I put it in production, and I've got a problem > with > mdraid. > > The config: > - Dell PowerEdge 800 > - 4 x 250 Go SATA attached to the mobo > - /boot 4 x 1 GB (1 GB available)in RAID1, 3 active + 1 spare > - / 4 x 25

Re: software Raid fsck

On Thursday July 21 2005 14:29, MatB wrote: > Hi, i have a software raid 1 configuration. > When i need to check the filesystem, does it make sense to fsck the > physical device (/dev/hdXX) or checking the block device /dev/mdX is > enough? With RAID, checking the discs for filesystem consistency

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:15:31AM -0500, Luke Pacholski wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > > > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > > > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ > > I was actually reading that as I was going through

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Perhaps you want LVM over RAID? > > Such configuration is also supported and can be done by the Debian installer. Ok, it simply looks like what I was trying to do (partition a software RAID device) is not possible: http://unthought.net/Softwar

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On 7/11/05, Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > > > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > > > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ > > I was actually reading that as I was going through the proces

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: > Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. > >http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ I was actually reading that as I was going through the process. The main difference is that instead of creating a single ext3 p

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Monday 11 July 2005 02:57, Luke Pacholski wrote: Hello Luke Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ all the best from. peter colton > I am currently tryin

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Don't mind it - it works just fine even if you ignore it. Have done > such with my setups having software RAID 1 using the Sarge installer. I wish I could, but the installer won't let me continue. Luke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2005 11:04 pm, Luke Pacholski wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [?] Partition disks Warning! The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 (Invalid argument). This means Li

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On 7/11/05, Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > Are you using mdadm? (It sound it, but I don't know what else is out > > there.) > > If so, just as a point of reference, I set mine up with mdadm, and it set it > > to /dev/md0. I just did a "

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Are you using mdadm? (It sound it, but I don't know what else is out there.) > > If so, just as a point of reference, I set mine up with mdadm, and it set it > to /dev/md0. I just did a "ls" of /dev/md* and got: I'm just using the software RAID opti

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Sunday 10 July 2005 11:04 pm, Luke Pacholski wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [?] Partition disks > > > Warning! > > > The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 > > > (Invalid argument). This means

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [?] Partition disks > > Warning! > > The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md/0 (Invalid > > argument). This means Linux won't know anything nothing about the > > modifications

Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer

Quoting Luke Pacholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am currently trying to set up software RAID while installing Sarge. I have two hard drives, both with one partition "physical volume for RAID", as well as a RAID 1 device that uses both. Everything goes fine until I try to write the partition table o

Re: software raid - no grub?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > In the end I went with some advice from the fedora forums; step 4 of > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-26912.html > > (explicitly installing grub on both drives) was what fixed it. > In the end, that is a good

Re: software raid - no grub?

Clive Menzies wrote: >You might find the following useful: > >http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html >http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid >http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ >http://deb.riseup.net/storage/software-raid/ >http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/

Re: software raid - no grub?

On (12/06/05 23:34), Graham Seaman wrote: > I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2 > drives and I wanted > to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up > as an install option. > The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:04:30AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm configuring a new Sarge box with Sofware Raid 5 using > 4 Hard disks. > I'm wondering what is the best way to partition the array? > For example: > > Is it best to just create 1 Raid 5 mounted on / > or > Create several Raid

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

Quoting Laurent CARON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, ... Is it best to just create 1 Raid 5 mounted on / or Create several Raid 5 arrays and split them into / /home /var /usr Note: Will use a Raid 0 mounted on /boot raid 0 on /boot ?? Whoops, meant to say Ra

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, ... Is it best to just create 1 Raid 5 mounted on / or Create several Raid 5 arrays and split them into / /home /var /usr Note: Will use a Raid 0 mounted on /boot raid 0 on /boot ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I'm configuring a new Sarge box with Sofware Raid 5 using > 4 Hard disks. > I'm wondering what is the best way to partition the array? [snip] > This server will be used with about 200 workstations serving file, web and > email. > I guess I'm basically askin

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

hi ya On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Niels wrote: > Promise Netherlands told me today that the kernel 2.6.x.x drivers > probably come next year. On a dutch forum they told me (2 secs ago) that > the name of a non-true hardware controller is a firmware controller. dependin on your ideas/view... h

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

Promise Netherlands told me today that the kernel 2.6.x.x drivers probably come next year. On a dutch forum they told me (2 secs ago) that the name of a non-true hardware controller is a firmware controller. I created a picture http://www.xs4all.nl/~mghvl404/bin/fotos/got/RAID0uitleg.gif to exp

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

Well, definitely sounds like you know what you want :) Seems like my confusion between you saying "software" and "hardware" controller is, as Paolo was saying, the Promise FastTrak isn't a "true" hardware controller apparently. It still requires some software, ie. kernel module, on the software s

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

I shall explain my choises. I really want to buy a RAID 0 (striping) controller, because my current harddisk is the bottleneck in my current system. I have a dual XP-M 2800+ with 1Gbit NIC and 1GB memory. I have read enough about RAID 0. I really want it! I know that it is not safe, but I can b

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:53:39 +0200, Niels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to buy a Promise Fasttrack TX2 plus RAID 0 controller with two > SATA hard disks. The controller is a software controller. I want no > other hard disks than these two in my PC. Can I boot of this setup with > the

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