Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-11 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:51:08 +1000 From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Nagilum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH] Expose the degraded status of an assembled array through sysfs

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday October 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:51:14PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > The 'degraded' attribute is useful to quickly determine if the array is > > degraded, instead of parsing 'mdadm -D' output or relying on the other > > techniques (number of working de

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday October 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, after looking in "Grow.c" I can see that the backup file is > removed once the critial section has passed: > > if (backup_file) > unlink(backup_file); > > printf(Name ": ... critical section

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Andrew Clayton wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:06:39 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Andrew Clayton wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:56:03 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: >> Can you start a 'vmstat 1' in one window, then start whatever >> you do to get crappy performance. That wo

Re: Different sized disks for RAID1+0 or RAID10.

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday October 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've currently got a pair of identical drives in a RAID1 set for > my data partition. I'll be getting a pair of bigger drives in a > bit, and I was wondering if I could RAID1 those (of course) and > then RAID0 the two differently sized mds. Eve

Re: How do i limit the bandwidth-usage while resyncing on RAID 1?

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday October 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List, > > while resyncing, the process takes the whole bandwidth from disk to disk. > > This leads in a VERY unhappy situation, because the system on this raid is > unpractical slow now, because it has to wait for disk-io. > > How can i t

Re: AW: How do i limit the bandwidth-usage while resyncing on RAID 1?

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Scobie
Rustedt, Florian wrote: Hi Richard, Seems to me, that you mussunderstood? There's no rsync in RAID afaik? This is an internal driver...? Hi Florian, My mistake - I read "rsync" in the Subject of your mail instead of "resync". Try "echo X > /sys/block/mdY/md/sync_speed_max" where X

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-11 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:06:39 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andrew Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:56:03 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > > > > >> Can you start a 'vmstat 1' in one window, then start whatever > > >> you do > >> to get crappy performance. That would be interesting to see.

Re: Different sized disks for RAID1+0 or RAID10.

2007-10-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kelly Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:38:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kelly Byrd wrote: >>> I've currently got a pair of identical drives in a RAID1 set for >>> my data partition. I'll be getting a pair of bigger drives in a >>> bit, and I was won

Re: RAID 5 performance issue.

2007-10-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andrew Clayton wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:56:03 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Can you start a 'vmstat 1' in one window, then start whatever you do to get crappy performance. That would be interesting to see. In trying to find something simple that can show the problem I'm seeing. I th

Re: Different sized disks for RAID1+0 or RAID10.

2007-10-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kelly Byrd wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:38:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kelly Byrd wrote: I've currently got a pair of identical drives in a RAID1 set for my data partition. I'll be getting a pair of bigger drives in a bit, and I was wondering if I could RAID1 th

Re: Different sized disks for RAID1+0 or RAID10.

2007-10-11 Thread Kelly Byrd
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:38:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kelly Byrd wrote: >> I've currently got a pair of identical drives in a RAID1 set for >> my data partition. I'll be getting a pair of bigger drives in a >> bit, and I was wondering if I could RAID1 those (of course) a

Re: Different sized disks for RAID1+0 or RAID10.

2007-10-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kelly Byrd wrote: I've currently got a pair of identical drives in a RAID1 set for my data partition. I'll be getting a pair of bigger drives in a bit, and I was wondering if I could RAID1 those (of course) and then RAID0 the two differently sized mds. Even better, will RAID10 let me do this?

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-11 Thread Nagilum
Ok, after looking in "Grow.c" I can see that the backup file is removed once the critial section has passed: if (backup_file) unlink(backup_file); printf(Name ": ... critical section passed.\n"); Since I had passed that point I'll try to

AW: How do i limit the bandwidth-usage while resyncing on RAID 1?

2007-10-11 Thread Rustedt, Florian
Thank you ;) Hoping, that did it! Kind regards, Florian > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Tomasz Chmielewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 17:16 > An: Rustedt, Florian > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Betreff: Re: How do i limit the bandwidth-usage

AW: How do i limit the bandwidth-usage while resyncing on RAID 1?

2007-10-11 Thread Rustedt, Florian
Hi Richard, Seems to me, that you mussunderstood? There's no rsync in RAID afaik? This is an internal driver...? Kind regards, Florian > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Richard Scobie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 21:46 > An: Linux RAID Mailing List