Re: How to create initrd.img to boot LVM-on-RAID0?

2007-10-03 Thread Dean S. Messing
Ian Ward Comfort wrote: : On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: : > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with : > (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire : > installation onto it, modifying the copied fstab to reflect where : > the new

Re: How to create initrd.img to boot LVM-on-RAID0?

2007-10-03 Thread Dean S. Messing
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: : "Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > I'm having the devil of a time trying to boot off : > an "LVM-on-RAID0" device on my Fedora 7 system. : > : > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with : > (currently) a single logical volum

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:36:39 -0700, David Rees wrote: > > # xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md0 > > actual 1828276, ideal 1708782, fragmentation factor 6.54% > > > > Good or bad? > > Not bad, but not that good, either. Try running xfs_fsr into a nightly > cronjob. By default, it will defrag mounted xfs fil

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:35:21 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: > What does cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt say? $ cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt 0 > That fragmentation looks normal/fine. Cool. > Justin. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in th

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Scobie
Andrew Clayton wrote: Yeah, I was wondering about that. It certainly hasn't improved things, it's unclear if it's made things any worse.. Many 3124 cards are PCI-X, so if you have one of these (and you seem to be using a server board which may well have PCI-X), bus performance is not going

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread David Rees
On 10/3/07, Andrew Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:43:24 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Have you checked fragmentation? > > You know, that never even occurred to me. I've gotten into the mind set > that it's generally not a problem under Linux. It's probably not t

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
What does cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt say? That fragmentation looks normal/fine. Justin. On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Andrew Clayton wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:43:24 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you checked fragmentation? You know, that never even occurred to me. I've gotten int

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:53:08 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andrew Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Hardware: > > > > Dual Opteron 2GHz cpus. 2GB RAM. 4 x 250GB SATA hard drives. 1 > > (root file system) is connected to the onboard Silicon Image 3114 > > controller. The

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:43:24 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: > Have you checked fragmentation? You know, that never even occurred to me. I've gotten into the mind set that it's generally not a problem under Linux. > xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md3 > > What does this report? # xfs_db -c frag -f /de

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Andrew Clayton wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:48:27 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: Also if it is software raid, when you make the XFS filesyste, on it, it sets up a proper (and tuned) sunit/swidth, so why would you want to change that? Oh I didn't, the sunit and swidth

Re: How to create initrd.img to boot LVM-on-RAID0?

2007-10-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having the devil of a time trying to boot off > an "LVM-on-RAID0" device on my Fedora 7 system. > > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with > (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire > installation onto

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andrew Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Hardware: > > Dual Opteron 2GHz cpus. 2GB RAM. 4 x 250GB SATA hard drives. 1 (root file > system) is connected to the onboard Silicon Image 3114 controller. The other > 3 (/home) are in a software RAID 5 connected to a PCI Silicon Image 3124

How to create initrd.img to boot LVM-on-RAID0?

2007-10-03 Thread Dean S. Messing
I'm having the devil of a time trying to boot off an "LVM-on-RAID0" device on my Fedora 7 system. I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire installation onto it, modifying the copied fstab to reflect where the new

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
Also if it is software raid, when you make the XFS filesyste, on it, it sets up a proper (and tuned) sunit/swidth, so why would you want to change that? Justin. On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Have you checked fragmentation? xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md3 What does this report? Justi

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
Have you checked fragmentation? xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md3 What does this report? Justin. On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Andrew Clayton wrote: Hi, Hardware: Dual Opteron 2GHz cpus. 2GB RAM. 4 x 250GB SATA hard drives. 1 (root file system) is connected to the onboard Silicon Image 3114 controller. Th

RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Clayton
Hi, Hardware: Dual Opteron 2GHz cpus. 2GB RAM. 4 x 250GB SATA hard drives. 1 (root file system) is connected to the onboard Silicon Image 3114 controller. The other 3 (/home) are in a software RAID 5 connected to a PCI Silicon Image 3124 card. I moved the 3 raid disks off the on board controll

Re: Journalling filesystem corruption fixed in between?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
Rustedt, Florian wrote: > Hello list, > > some folks reported severe filesystem-crashes with ext3 and reiserfs on > mdraid level 1 and 5. I guess much more strong evidience and details are needed. Without any additional information I for one can only make a (not-so-pleasant) guess about those "so