On Jan 30, 2008 6:33 PM, Richard Scobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found this document very useful:
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/008898.html
>
> After modifying my grub.conf to refer to (hd0,0), reinstalling grub on
> hdc with:
>
> grub> device (hd0) /dev/hdc
>
On Jan 30, 2008 2:06 PM, Richard Scobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hda has failed and after spending some time with a rescue disk mounting
> hdc's /boot partition (hdc1) and changing the grub.conf device
> parameters, I have no success in booting off it.
>
> I then set them back to the original (
On Dec 31, 2007 2:39 AM, Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> new years eve :( I was wondering if I can tell the kernel not to kick
> a drive out of an array if it sees a block error and just return the
> block error upstream, but continue otherwise (all my partitions are on
> a raid5 array, w
On Dec 6, 2007 1:06 AM, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Jon Nelson wrote:
>
> > I saw something really similar while moving some very large (300MB to
> > 4GB) files.
> > I was really surprised to see actual disk I/O (as measured by dstat)
> > be really horrible.
>
> A
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
On 7/5/07, acostoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've being trying to set a 6 disk RAID-5 for a few days but it took only 3
disks (the other 3 gave Device busy error); in the meantime, an old server
went out of order so I have to use the incomplete host and it is now online
with user files.
The q
On 2/26/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday February 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that rear errors will be noticed by the MD system,
> either.
:-) Your typing is nearly as bad as mine often is, but your intent is
correct. If you independently read from a devic
On 2/26/07, Colin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I say,
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null
where /dev/sda2 is a component of an active md device.
Will the RAID subsystem get upset that someone else is fiddling with the
disk (even in just a read only way)? And will a read error on this dd
(cau
On 2/25/07, Richard Scobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colin Simpson wrote:
> They therefore do not have the "check" option in the kernel. Is there
> anything else I can do? Would forcing a resync achieve the same result
> (or is that down right dangerous as the array is not considered
> consisten
On 10/14/06, Lane Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am wondering if there is a way to cut my losses with these bad sectors
and have it recover what it can so that I can get my raid array back to
functioning. Right now I cannot get a spare disk recovery to finish
because these bad sectors. Is
On 9/8/06, Ruth Ivimey-Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I messed up slightly when creating a new 6-disk raid6 array, and am wondering
if there is a simple answer. The problem is that I didn't partition the drives,
but simply used the whole drive. All drives are of the same type and using the
Super
On 8/11/06, dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, David Rees wrote:
> On 8/10/06, dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - set up smartd to run long self tests once a month. (stagger it every
> > few days so that your disks aren't d
On 8/10/06, dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- set up smartd to run long self tests once a month. (stagger it every
few days so that your disks aren't doing self-tests at the same time)
I personally prefer to do a long self-test once a week, a month seems
like a lot of time for someth
On 6/23/06, Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 23 Jun 2006, PFC suggested tentatively:
> - ext3 is slow if you have many files in one directory, but has
> more mature tools (resize, recovery etc)
This is much less true if you turn on the dir_index feature.
However, even with dir_ind
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