Raid 5 questions

2010-10-05 Thread Aron Szabo
Hi! I have a raid problem ... one of the subdisk is missing and i can't mount my partition. FreeBSD testhost 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # gvinum printconfig # Vinum configuration of ala

gvinum RAID 5+0?

2009-03-28 Thread Mike Manlief
Hello, How does one configure gvinum for RAID 5+0 (distributed parity nested in stripe)? The configuration I've tried seems to be incorrect. Config: drive a device /dev/ad10 drive b device /dev/ad12 drive c device /dev/ad14 drive d device /dev/ad4 drive e device /dev/ad6 drive f device

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just because it's not part of FreeBSD. why - i don't know On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: unpack tar.gz, compile, load kernel module and use graid5 tool :) I was going to say initially "I feel like I am back in Linux - no ports, download compile, test :-))", However

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-07 Thread Peter
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > unpack tar.gz, compile, load kernel module and use graid5 tool :) > I was going to say initially "I feel like I am back in Linux - no ports, download compile, test :-))", However looking at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html, I started to think that maybe for

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
unpack tar.gz, compile, load kernel module and use graid5 tool :) On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: search geom_raid5 in google. i don't know why it's not yet integrated in FreeBSD. I did search even earlier today, but all I got was wikipedia article + some forums post

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Peter
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > search geom_raid5 in google. > > i don't know why it's not yet integrated in FreeBSD. > I did search even earlier today, but all I got was wikipedia article + some forums posts with some patches(nothing like ports or anything). any tutorial, howto, help will be highly appr

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
search geom_raid5 in google. i don't know why it's not yet integrated in FreeBSD. it works On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: hello, What is the easiest way to achieve RAID-5 in freebsd aprt for Vinum ? I plan to use 1 x 250 GB (no mirroring) + 3 x 1.5 TB in RAID 5 Is there an

RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Peter
hello, What is the easiest way to achieve RAID-5 in freebsd aprt for Vinum ? I plan to use 1 x 250 GB (no mirroring) + 3 x 1.5 TB in RAID 5 Is there any tutorial about it ? Handbook does not look very promising :-) Peter ___ freebsd-questions

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2008/10/15 Nejc Skoberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > > the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you > > think I should try? > > If I were you, I would first buy/get a XXX GB SATA drive, create a > filesystem there > and copy all three disks block-by-block as three

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Dieter
> > > I like Intel as much as I like AMD > > > > That is your right. Inthell has a long history of buggy products, > > attempting to hide/ignore bugs, poor customer support, outright > > theft, etc. AMD isn't perfect, but the list of bad things is far > > far shorter. And there are other compan

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:28:43PM +0100, Dieter wrote: > > > My personal approach to avoiding data loss is (a) avoid buggy things like > > > inthell and linux. > > > > Interesting, being as we have another thread going as of late that seems > > to link transparent data loss with AMD AM2-based sys

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Dieter
> > My personal approach to avoiding data loss is (a) avoid buggy things like > > inthell and linux. > > Interesting, being as we have another thread going as of late that seems > to link transparent data loss with AMD AM2-based systems with certain > models of Adaptec and possibly LSI Logic contr

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Dieter wrote: > > FreeBSD 7.0-Release > > Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (Intel Matrix Storage Technology) > > 3 WD Raptor 74 GB in a RAID 5 array > > 1 WD Raptor 150 GB as a standalone disk > > / and /var mounted on the standal

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Dieter
> FreeBSD 7.0-Release > Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (Intel Matrix Storage Technology) > 3 WD Raptor 74 GB in a RAID 5 array > 1 WD Raptor 150 GB as a standalone disk > / and /var mounted on the standalone,, /usr on the RAID 5 > I believe what happened was that one of the disks

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hello, > the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you > think I should try? If I were you, I would first buy/get a XXX GB SATA drive, create a filesystem there and copy all three disks block-by-block as three separate files (which will be the size of the disks). This

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
don't think should be possible. I "lost" all > > three > > > disks in my RAID 5 array simultaneously after approx. two years without > > any > > > problem. And I fear I will never see my data again. But I really hope > > some > > > of you clever

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
2008/10/15 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > Something happened that I don't think should be possible. I "lost" all > three > > disks in my RAID 5 a

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > Dear list, > > Something happened that I don't think should be possible. I "lost" all three > disks in my RAID 5 array simultaneously after approx. two years without any > problem. And I fear I wil

RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Dear list, Something happened that I don't think should be possible. I "lost" all three disks in my RAID 5 array simultaneously after approx. two years without any problem. And I fear I will never see my data again. But I really hope some of you clever persons can give me some hint

Vinum for hard disk drive balanced load sharing configuration example RAID-5

2008-09-18 Thread Nash Nipples
Dear Listmates, Is it possible to configure vinum for balancing the mileage between two and three non-volatile storage devices of a different size I have read the manual thoroughly and noticed that the are certain restrictions applied to the hard drive sizes in the proposed RAID5 data handling

RAID-5/Stripe Size and verifying absolute disk stripe access

2008-04-10 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
My problem is aligning reads/writes properly on a 3 disk RAID-5 volume with stripe size of 16384. Since my measurements all show the same relatively low read/write performance on the volume matter which offset i choose on the disklabel "partition" (i've tried with the granulari

Vinum Raid 5: Bad HD Crashes Server. Can't rebuild array.

2007-10-18 Thread FX Charpentier
= = The vinum volume is set in a Raid 5 configuration. Here is how it's configured: drive d1 device /dev/ad4s1h drive d2 device /dev/ad5s1h drive d3 device /dev/ad6s1h volume datastore plex org raid5 256k subdisk length 185g drive d1 subdisk le

Gvinum and RAID 5 (again)

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
Hi, I've found out that gvinum won't let you grow a RAID 5 system without obliterating it first. Something that I haven't been able to ascertain is if gvinum will let you add discs to a RAID 5 array later on as hot spares? Many thanks for so

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > >>> How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it >>> automatically create's it as da0s1d. >> Use: >> >> bsdlabel -e da0s1 >> >> > There's also a trick you can use in sysinstall. It will only ever >

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Frank Wissmann wrote: > Well, I think if you boot your computer from a cdrom and edit with > bsdlabel you get into an editor where you can change the d into an a. > That must be the solution you want. > > Regards > > Frank > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Seaman wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it as da0s1d. Use: bsdlabel -e da0s1 There's also a trick you can use in sysinstall. It will only ever assign an "a" partition to /. So if you ha

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Frank Wissmann
Well, I think if you boot your computer from a cdrom and edit with bsdlabel you get into an editor where you can change the d into an a. That must be the solution you want. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Frank Wissmann wrote: >> FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change >> this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it >> will work. >> >> Regards >> >> Frank >> > How ca

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Frank Wissmann wrote: > >> FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change >> this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it >> will work. >> >> Regards >> >> Frank >> >> > How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to c

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Frank Wissmann wrote: > FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change > this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it > will work. > > Regards > > Frank > How can I do that? When I use sysinstall to create my partitions it automatically create's it

Re: Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Frank Wissmann
FreeBSD boots by default from the a-partition and IMK you can't change this. Try to setup your rootdev as disk0s1a instead of disk0s1d and it will work. Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Can't get FreeBSD to boot automatically from RAID 5 system

2007-05-09 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hello, I purchased a RocketRaid card + 3 disks, and moved my FreeBSD 6.1 to it using dump, I then changed my fstab entry to use da0s1d for /, I made sure that the it is bootable, I told my raid controller to be bootable, I set it up to boot in my BIOS as the first device, I added the kernel module

"ffs_valloc: dup alloc" panic under 6.0 with RAID 5 iir driver

2007-04-02 Thread Philippe Lang
reboot in single-user mode, fsck found 200+ errors (a lot of soft updates inconsistencies, plus others), but corrected them apparently well. At the next reboot, except a few things, everything works fine, but this is quite frightening. The server has an INTEL SRCU42L card, with RAID 5, firmware 2.

Re: Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/03/21 6:33, John Nielsen seems to have typed: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:03:53 am Gabriel Rossetti wrote: >> I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know >> hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in >> a

Re: Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:03:53 am Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know > hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in > a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7,

Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-20 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hello, I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some exercise :-) I've heard of several soft

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Michael L. Squires wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/11/15 11:58, Michael L. Squires seems to have typed: > I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under > 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. In my experience gvinum is stable until a drive fails. Good luck and let us know what happens! __

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere be

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-13 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hi, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. I agree. Now I will have to

State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-10 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. Now I will have to upgrade

Re: Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...

2006-07-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Telting wrote: I just wanted to get it straight. I think I read some post that said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd source tree. Can anyone comfirm this for me? I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller. I got it because of

Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...

2006-07-27 Thread Telting
I just wanted to get it straight. I think I read some post that said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd source tree. Can anyone comfirm this for me? I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller. I got it because of the Freebsd support what appeared to be available

moving gvinum raid 5 volume between systems

2006-07-05 Thread Ian Jefferson
versions of FreeBSD on one machine. I'd like to be able to mount the same raid 5 set on either OS. IJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Slade
ksys Wireless-G USB network adapter, and Integrated > Adaptec AIC-7892 SCSI controller. > > I would like to setup RAID 5. The intended use is in my home network as > a personal SOA/J2EE/MySQL development box and family file server. > > Please review and comment on my assumptions

Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations

2006-02-11 Thread Matt Sullivan
controller. I would like to setup RAID 5. The intended use is in my home network as a personal SOA/J2EE/MySQL development box and family file server. Please review and comment on my assumptions: 1) FreeBSD 6-STABLE has fixed any 5.X SMP issues. 2) I will need an additional RAID controller card. 3

Software RAID 5

2006-01-31 Thread Michael
Hello there, I have a Dell Power Edge 2400 system with 4 X 18 GB SCSI Drives. I would like to use a software Raid 5 using FreeBSD 5.4. Any suggestions on how to go about doing it? I have read so many articles, it makes my head hurt. There are many options, for mirroring, but some are better

RE: slow RAID-5 on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Try regenerating the array and put it in striped mode, rather than raid-5 redundant mode, and see what happens. You might also try setting it up as a mirror raid-0/1 and test. I'm sure everyone here would be interested in the results, I know I would. Ted >-Original Message---

RE: slow RAID-5 on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-21 Thread Tamouh H.
On another note, I've ran diskinfo test and these are the results, much better but still the RAID-5 slower than a single drive: impala# diskinfo -t aacd1 aacd1 512 # sectorsize 146781044736# mediasize in bytes (137G) 286681728 # mediasize in se

slow RAID-5 on FreeBSD 5.4

2006-01-21 Thread Tamouh H.
Hello, I've just ran Bonnie on a FreeBSD 5.4 machine with Adaptec 2230SLP RAID-5 SCSI Card and Seagate 146GB 10K RPM U320 drives. The results were very surprising. The RAID-5 is EXTREMELY slow, and I can't figure out why! The RAID controller has two volumes: RAID-5 and a lone dr

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Installed on Adaptec 2100S RAID 5 But Won't Boot

2005-12-29 Thread Derek Flenniken
Solved. Something in the BIOS. I reset to defaults, then re-configured. Only thing that's different is that it boots now. Derek Derek Flenniken wrote: I am able to install with no problems. RAID5 "Drive" is visible for slice creation, partition. Use Entire Disk + Set Bootable FreeBSD Boot M

FreeBSD 6.0 Installed on Adaptec 2100S RAID 5 But Won't Boot

2005-12-29 Thread Derek Flenniken
I am able to install with no problems. RAID5 "Drive" is visible for slice creation, partition. Use Entire Disk + Set Bootable FreeBSD Boot Manager Default Partition Scheme If I install again I see my slice and partitions from the previous install. I've gone through the configurations with the

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
Matt Virus wrote: darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? I

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread Matt Virus
darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set t

Re: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
darren david wrote: hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set t

newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit

2005-10-19 Thread darren david
hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 bloc

Re: Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.

2005-10-07 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Jayesh Jayan wrote: > Hi, > > I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before. > > Now i have servers up and running. > > I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on > the server. > > Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID har

Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.

2005-10-07 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before. Now i have servers up and running. I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on the server. Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID hardware .. Below is the URL to the sp

RE: A few quick questions, one on daily reports and one on Raid 5...

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
There should be no problem creating a filesystem on a raid 5 (hardware or software) and mounting that as /var or /var/log or whatever. As for the daily reports, take a look at /etc/mail/aliases I think you can alias root to multiple email addresses (unsure, never tried) -Original Message

Re: A few quick questions, one on daily reports and one on Raid 5...

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:34:10AM -0700, mojo fms wrote: > I know its doable, how would i go about adding another email that the daily > reports get sent too? I would still like them to be stored on the system its > self but also send to another email account. In /etc/periodic.conf, set daily_s

A few quick questions, one on daily reports and one on Raid 5...

2005-09-05 Thread mojo fms
I know its doable, how would i go about adding another email that the daily reports get sent too? I would still like them to be stored on the system its self but also send to another email account. Raid 5 question, i know in MS Enviroments log files can not be stored on a striped raid array

Recommended Software RAID-5 on dual-amd64

2005-08-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I have a dual Opteron box built with http://tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891_spec.html , using 4 identical SATA drives. I plan to use FBSD 6 (installing beta2, cvsup to head). I will use gmirror to RAID-1 the boot partition, and RAID-5 for the remainder. I was wondering which is the

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-22 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/21/2005 03:41 PM To FreeBSD Questions cc Subject Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM Michael Dale wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > >> So, should I >> 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config,

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:39PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL > > > partitions, including / (so if any one o

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:11:18PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Michael Dale wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? When I installed GEOM for a RAID 1 setup I did the

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
le -- the loader doesn't know about the mirror even in a mirrored / setup; it justs treats one of the disks of the mirror as 'the boot disk'. It's not until the kernel is loaded that gvinum RAID-5 can do something. So, in your case, the loader would read random RAID-5 data

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Dale
Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? When I installed GEOM for a RAID 1 setup I did the following: Install FreeBSD on

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: So, should I 1) Boot up with Disc 1, install minimal config, reboot 2) setup GEOM RAID 5 on all the discs ? 3) edit fstab to point to /dev/[what??]/[what else] instead of /ad0s1[abef] ? or boot up with CD 1, run GEOM, build the raid 5 from here before installing

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
ld of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to suggestions. See gmirror and geom. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gmir

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
nt to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to suggestions. I've been searching and cant find any pointers on how to set this up properly. I

Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any o

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There have been issues with growfs in the past; last time I looked > it hadn't been updated to handle UFS 2. If you don't need the UFS 2 > functionality, you might be better off using UFS 1 if you intend to > grow the file system. growfs gained

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at 16:05:50 -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: > I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a > hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. > > I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large > volume to store video.

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Subhro wrote: On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 40

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Subhro
On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a thi

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a third party piece of software to resize Dri

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-10 Thread Subhro
On 5/11/2005 2:35, Tony Shadwick wrote: What my concern is when I start to fill up the ~400GB of space I'm giving myself with this set. I would like to simply insert another 200GB drive and expand the array, allowing the hardware raid to do the work. That is what everybody does. It is very much

Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-10 Thread Tony Shadwick
I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large volume to store video. I have purchased 3 200GB EIDE hard drives, and a 6 channel Promise SX6

Fwd: FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5

2005-02-22 Thread Alvaro Rosales
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alvaro Rosales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:54:56 -0500 Subject: FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello guys, I had a problem with my raid 5 array and I had to replace one of the disk

FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5

2005-02-21 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hello guys, I had a problem with my raid 5 array and I had to replace one of the disks, the utility to restore the array worked fine , all the 3 disks are ok, but the system doesn't boot, I have looked at the contents of the disks using the fixit CD and the data seems ok, but I dont know h

disklabel missing on a raid-5

2005-01-28 Thread Peter Wong
to install a IDE HD with Freebsd 4.6 on it, boot up the server and attempt to retrieve the database backups from the messed-up raid-5 HDDS that I stored in a /usr/home/backup folder. dmesg says: da0 at asr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: Tagged Queueing Enable

Compaq RAID 5 and a PC164

2005-01-03 Thread Bob Bomar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a Proliant 5000 that I gutted a while back, and I am putting the RAID 5 card and enclosure in my Alpha PC164. When I try to boot the pc164, it hangs at loading the kernel. All it says is: Entering kernel at 0xfc33a6c0... And hangs. The

Re: RAID 5 stripe size

2004-08-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:02:25PM +0800, H. Sandring wrote: > Is there an intelligent way of choosing the stripe size of a RAID 5 > array? From man vinum: "For optimum performance, stripes should be at least 128 kB in size: anything smaller will result in a significant incr

RAID 5 stripe size

2004-08-04 Thread H. Sandring
Dear list Is there an intelligent way of choosing the stripe size of a RAID 5 array? TIA zheyu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is it possible to migrate raid 5 array to another controller?

2004-07-22 Thread Artem Koutchine
> First off, most of the people in the FreeBSD lists can get fairly upset > when they see people cross-posting to more than one list at a time. Sorry, i got the point. I just thought it was related to both list. Apperantly i thought wrong. > You'd be better off cloning the RAID array, say to per

Re: Is it possible to migrate raid 5 array to another controller?

2004-07-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
> If i am running raid5 on 3ware can i use the same disk array as > raid5 on, for example, high point controller without rebuilding > the array, just reattching disks to a new controller? Basically, > i am asking if raid5 is a industrially standard or every manufacturer > adds something to its spec

Is it possible to migrate raid 5 array to another controller?

2004-07-22 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hello! If i am running raid5 on 3ware can i use the same disk array as raid5 on, for example, high point controller without rebuilding the array, just reattching disks to a new controller? Basically, i am asking if raid5 is a industrially standard or every manufacturer adds something to its specs.

RAID-5 Failure And Booting

2004-05-30 Thread Rishi Chopra
My RAID-5 array seems to have died this weekend. After coming back from a motorcycle-riding class, I noticed my internet connection was down. I hooked up a monitor and a keyboard to my FreeBSD box, and noticed that the OS was no longer running, that the computer had rebooted, and that the BIOS

RAID-5 Failure And Booting

2004-05-29 Thread Rishi Chopra
My RAID-5 array seems to have died this weekend. After coming back from a motorcycle-riding class, I noticed my internet connection was down. I hooked up a monitor and a keyboard to my FreeBSD box, and noticed that the OS was no longer running, that the computer had rebooted, and that the BIOS

Re: SATA RAID 5 controller for FreeBSD

2004-02-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jan 29, 2004, at 5:12 AM, Artem Koutchine wrote: Hi! I am looking for supported RAID 5 controller for FreeBSD and I am very puzzled after reading all the specs and descrioptions. I haven't found any SATA RAID 5 controller in the FreeBSD supported Hardware list, but some manufacturer

SATA RAID 5 controller for FreeBSD

2004-02-02 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hi! I am looking for supported RAID 5 controller for FreeBSD and I am very puzzled after reading all the specs and descrioptions. I haven't found any SATA RAID 5 controller in the FreeBSD supported Hardware list, but some manufacturer claim they support FreeBSD. SO far i have found 1) Pr

Anyone used the RocketRaid 1640 SATA Raid 5 card?

2003-12-03 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi All, Still scouting around for a raid 5 card, and found this little beauty! http://www.highpoint-tech.com/rr1640.htm Looking through their web site, and it looks impressive, in that they actually actively support FreeBSD! Anyone tried out the 154x, 1640 or 1820 products with FreeBSD 4.x

PCI Raid 5 cards for FreeBSD

2003-11-23 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I have seen both the Promise and 3ware raid cards mentioned over time in this mailing list. I would like to be able to run a 1-2TB raid 5 SATA on FreeBSD 4.9. Is anyone using a card from these suppliers? Will FreeBSD install on a Raid 5 array (after it has been configured in the Array BIOS

Re: Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?

2003-10-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 October 2003 at 10:49:30 -0700, billn wrote: > Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in > FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. > > 4.8 is giving me "Operation Not Permitted" when I attempt to start > vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific sect

Re: Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?

2003-10-03 Thread synrat
Are you root ? On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, billn wrote: > Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in > FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. > > 4.8 is giving me "Operation Not Permitted" when I attempt to start > vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in t

Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?

2003-10-03 Thread billn
Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. 4.8 is giving me "Operation Not Permitted" when I attempt to start vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in the docs, followed it. Still no joy. Muchly thanks for any

Re: replace a working vinum drive in RAID-5 config

2003-09-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I'm trying to find out how to replace a drive in a vinum RAID-5 volume > that's still working. I have the following volume (copied by hand, sorry): > > V local State: up Plexes: 1 Si

replace a working vinum drive in RAID-5 config

2003-09-10 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I'm trying to find out how to replace a drive in a vinum RAID-5 volume that's still working. I have the following volume (copied by hand, sorry): V local State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 167 GB P local.p0 R5 State: up Subdisks:

Re: Problem with Vinum RAID-5 configuration

2003-08-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[moved to -questions; this isn't a file system issue] On Thursday, 28 August 2003 at 11:52:44 +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm configuring a RAID-5 filesystem on a Pentium III 1Ghz machine (FreeBSD > 4.9-PRERELEASE). The disks are "dangerously

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