Re: RAID5 drive failure, please verify my commands

2005-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Mike Hardy wrote: Gerd Knops wrote: Hello all, One of the dreaded Maxtor SATA drives in my RAID5 failed, after just 3 months of light use. Anyhow I neither have the disk capacity nor the money to buy it to make a backup. To make sure I do it correctly, could you folks please double-check my int

Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Janusz Zamecki
W liƛcie z pon, 17-01-2005, godz. 16:51, Hans Kristian Rosbach pisze: [...] > Actually I have managed to get about 30-40% higher throughput with just > a little hacking on the code that selects what disk to use. > > Problem is > -It selects the disk that is closest to the wanted sector by remem

Re: RAID1 Corruption

2005-01-17 Thread Markus Gehring
Paul Clements wrote: Hi, Markus Gehring wrote: I have a reproducable problem with corrupted data read from a RAID1-array. Setup: HW: 2 S-ATA-Disks (160GB each) -> /dev/md4 RAID1 Promise S150 TX4 - Controller AMD Sempron 2200+ SW: Fedora Core 3 Kernel 2.6.10 unpatched Samba (for read

Re: RAID1 Corruption

2005-01-17 Thread Tony Mantler
On 17-Jan-05, at 1:14 PM, Paul Clements wrote: Hi, Markus Gehring wrote: I have a reproducable problem with corrupted data read from a RAID1-array. Setup: HW: 2 S-ATA-Disks (160GB each) -> /dev/md4 RAID1 Promise S150 TX4 - Controller AMD Sempron 2200+ SW: Fedora Core 3 Kernel 2.6.10 un

Re: RAID1 Corruption

2005-01-17 Thread Sven Anders
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Gehring wrote: | Hi Folks! | | I have a reproducable problem with corrupted data read from a RAID1-array. | | Everything works fine with only one drive in the array. If the second is | synced up read accesses return corrupted data. | | Interestin

Re: RAID1 Corruption

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Clements
Hi, Markus Gehring wrote: I have a reproducable problem with corrupted data read from a RAID1-array. Setup: HW: 2 S-ATA-Disks (160GB each) -> /dev/md4 RAID1 Promise S150 TX4 - Controller AMD Sempron 2200+ SW: Fedora Core 3 Kernel 2.6.10 unpatched Samba (for read/write-accesses) SW-R

RAID1 Corruption

2005-01-17 Thread Markus Gehring
Hi Folks! I have a reproducable problem with corrupted data read from a RAID1-array. Setup: HW: 2 S-ATA-Disks (160GB each) -> /dev/md4 RAID1 Promise S150 TX4 - Controller AMD Sempron 2200+ SW: Fedora Core 3 Kernel 2.6.10 unpatched Samba (for read/write-accesses) SW-Raid Everything w

Re: Is this hdparm -t output correct? (was Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem)

2005-01-17 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Monday 17 January 2005 16:51, Andy Smith wrote: > > As an aside, when I try this, how come I get this: > > $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/md0 > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.03 seconds = 50.19 MB/sec > HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: In

Is this hdparm -t output correct? (was Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem)

2005-01-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:24:47PM +, Andrew Walrond wrote: > FWIW I get these results with RAID-0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/md0 > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.00 seconds = 56.64 MB/sec > > /dev/sdb: > Timing buffered disk r

Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Hans Kristian Rosbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -It selects the disk that is closest to the wanted sector by remembering > what sector was last requested and what disk was used for it. > -For sequential reads (sucha as hdparm) it will override and use the > same disk anyways. (sector = lastsec

Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Monday 17 January 2005 15:39, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Janusz Zamecki wrote: > > > I've expected much better /dev/md6 performance (at least 100MB/s). > > I wouldn't - use RAID-0 if you want more performance. > FWIW I get these results with RAID-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sud

Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Hans Kristian Rosbach
> As I understand it, it reads "chunksize" blocks from one drive, then > switches to the other drive, then back again. > > Try a bigger read - eg: > > time dd if=/dev/md6 of=/dev/null bs=128K count=8192 > > but I don't think there are any real gains to be made with RAID-1 - your > results more

Re: RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Janusz Zamecki wrote: > Hello! > > After days of googling I've gave up and decided to ask for help. > > The story is very simple: I have /dev/md6 raid1 array made of hdg and > hde disks. The resulting array is as fast as 1 disk only. Why would you expect it to be any faster?

RAID1 & 2.6.9 performance problem

2005-01-17 Thread Janusz Zamecki
Hello! After days of googling I've gave up and decided to ask for help. The story is very simple: I have /dev/md6 raid1 array made of hdg and hde disks. The resulting array is as fast as 1 disk only. Please check this out: hdparm -t /dev/hdg /dev/hde /dev/md6 /dev/hdg: Timing buffered disk reads

RE: 4 questions. Chieftec chassis case CA-01B, resync times, selecting ide driver module loading, raid5 :2 drives on same ide channel

2005-01-17 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Thank you to Gordon, Maarten and Guy for your helpful responses. I learned > much from each of your comments. > > Gordon: I get the same output on 2.6.8 sarge kernel for hpt366 driver. I > notice that running hdparm /dev/hde that the IO_support is set a

Re: RAID-6 ...

2005-01-17 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
> "Gordon" == Gordon Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gordon> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Neil Brown wrote: >> There is no current support for raid6 in any 2.4 kernel and I >> am not aware of anyone planning such support. Assume it is 2.6 >> only. Gordon> How "real-life" te