Kernels and MD versions (was: md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2)

2006-02-08 Thread Patrik Jonsson
Neil Brown wrote: > I always make them against the latest -mm kernel, so that would be a > good place to start. However things change quickly and I can't > promise it will apply against whatever is the 'latest' today. > > If you would like to nominate a particular recent kernel, I'll create > a p

Re: [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2

2006-02-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday February 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello linux world! > > Excuse me for being so ignorant but /exactly how/ do I go about to find > out which files to download from kernel.org that will approve these > patches? I always make them against the latest -mm kernel, so that would be a go

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Jure Pečar
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:49 +0100 Chris Osicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking about it, I have no idea how to do it on Linux if ever > possible. > I connect over fibre channel SAN, using QLogic QLA2312 HBAS, if it matters. > > Anyone any hints? I too am running a jbod with md

RAID 106 array

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
I was doing some advanced planning for storage, and it came to me that there might be benefit from thinking outside the box on RAID config. Therefore I offer this for comment. The object is reliability with performance. The means is to set up two arrays on physical devices, one RAID-0 for perfo

Re: mdraid0 worries on 2.6

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach Richard Mittendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 7 Feb 2006 01:12:20 +0100): > Hi, > > I do have _great_ performance troubles with software raid0 with 2.6.12 > to .15. I have not tried earlier 2.6's, but 2.4 (tested up to 2.4.24) > do it right. > > In fact, mdraid0 over 2 rather old 9G

RAID 5 inaccessible

2006-02-08 Thread Krekna Mektek
Hi, I found out that my storage drive was gone and I went to my server to check out what wrong. I've got 3 400GB disks wich form the array. I found out I had one spare and one faulty drive, and the RAID 5 array was not able to recover. After a reboot because of some stuff with Xen my main rootdis

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Re: mdadm and monitoring

2006-02-08 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, discman (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > Hi. > > Anyone with some experience on mdadm? Just about everyone here, I'd hope ;-) > I have a running RAID0-array with mdadm and it`s using monitor-mode with an > e-mail address. > Anyone knows how to remove that e-mail adress without d

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Osicki
I was thinking about it, I have no idea how to do it on Linux if ever possible. I connect over fibre channel SAN, using QLogic QLA2312 HBAS, if it matters. Anyone any hints? Thanks and regards, Chris On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:26:13 -0500 Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Osicki wr

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Osicki
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:16:20 -0800 Mike Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris Osicki wrote: > > > > > To rephrase my question, is there any way to make it visible to the > > other host that the array is up an running on the this host? > > > > Any comments, ideas? > > Would that not im