Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >> On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> so nobody on this list knows anything about raid

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? >>> wrong list? >>> >>> hi all.. i have a box in a remote

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: kalin mintchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:04 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: raid or not raid > > > >

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread kalin mintchev
> > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kalin mintchev >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:11 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: raid or not ra

RE: raid or not raid

2007-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kalin mintchev > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:11 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid or not raid > > > > On Thu, May 24

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:37:25 -0400 (EDT) > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > replying to your email down the thread...but using this content... > >> L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name >> 0 6 66278.5 0 00.05.0|

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:37:25 -0400 (EDT) "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: replying to your email down the thread...but using this content... > L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name > 0 6 66278.5 0 00.05.0| ad4 The a

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:41:28 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the > > fstab or df? > because df shows mounted disks, and fstab what to mount. neither of them affect b (usually swap) or c (as per Olivi

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
>> how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the >> fstab or df? > > Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice. > > That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at > least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice. but there

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
> how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the > fstab or df? Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice. That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice. Olivier ___

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-25 Thread kalin mintchev
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:11:27 -0400 (EDT) > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> unless "at device 31.2 on pci0" points to some RAID evidence - which i >> think it's false - than i read this as the ad6 disk sits there unused. >> am i right?! > > FWIW, you can use gstat (as root) to see

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:11:27 -0400 (EDT) "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unless "at device 31.2 on pci0" points to some RAID evidence - which i > think it's false - than i read this as the ad6 disk sits there unused. > am i right?! FWIW, you can use gstat (as root) to see if a certa

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:11:27PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > >> > >> so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? > >> wrong list? > >> > >> > hi all.. > >> > > >> > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: >> >> so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? >> wrong list? >> >> > hi all.. >> > >> > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine >> has >> > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only on

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread doug
On Thu, 24 May 2007, kalin mintchev wrote: Also what type of RAID? If it's Hardware RAID _and_ it's using a 3ware card, doubt it. i don't see anything that ponts to that in the pciconf output.. you can install tw_cli from /usr/ports/sysutils. It's a nice little utility and will show you

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:07:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? > >wrong list? > > > >> hi all.. > >> > >> i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine >

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 06:30:06 am kalin mintchev wrote: > so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? > wrong list? > > > hi all.. > > > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine > > has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a > > bun

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please elaborate. do you mean that the raided disks will have another > id/name rather than 'ad'? Not knowing what hardware you have, I would still hazard that a RAID device will

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? > wrong list? > > > hi all.. > > > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: >so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? >wrong list? > > > hi all.. > > > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > > two discs raided in it but df an

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine >> has >> > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a >> bunch of >> > slices. >> > under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? > hi all.. > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > slices. > under dev

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
> Also what type of RAID? If it's Hardware RAID _and_ it's using a 3ware > card, doubt it. i don't see anything that ponts to that in the pciconf output.. > you can install tw_cli from /usr/ports/sysutils. It's a nice > little utility and will show you the status of your units/ports/drives > a

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
>> > >> > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine >> has >> > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a >> bunch of >> > slices. >> > under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted >> anywhere. >> > the one i see both in df an

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Jack Barnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? > hi all.. > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24/05/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? > hi all.. > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > slices. >

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread kalin mintchev
so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? > hi all.. > > i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has > two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of > slices. > under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not