Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Siju George
On Nov 19, 2007 5:12 AM, Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Siju George wrote: > > > > > I know I cannot escape recompiling the kernel because it is necessary > > for updates. But as far as possible I would like to stay away from it > > on production machines :-

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
Nah, single disk is fine. On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 01:12:29PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > On 19/11/2007, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparc > > > > Preferable I'd like to see the testing using real disks. > > Do the slices need to be on different disks to make useful testing? I >

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Edd Barrett
On 19/11/2007, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sparc > > Preferable I'd like to see the testing using real disks. Do the slices need to be on different disks to make useful testing? I ask because my sparc(64) box has a single FCAL (Fibre Channel) disk, and these things are not easy to

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:54:04AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Marco, what arch are you missing reports for now? That is the best question to ask :-) The arches that I want more testing on are: alpha armish hp300 hppa landisk luna88k ma68k mvme68k mvme88k sgi sparc vax zaurus Preferable I'd

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:04:53AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 7:46 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:32:58AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > > Thank you so much > > > > > > > Most of your questions are around rebuild or derivatives. This d

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/19 10:27, Edd Barrett wrote: > On 19/11/2007, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007/11/19 05:04, Siju George wrote: > > > One all the features in your mind has been implemented to softraid > > > will it make RAIDFRAME redundant? > > > > This is all future stuff, I think

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Edd Barrett
On 19/11/2007, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/11/19 05:04, Siju George wrote: > > One all the features in your mind has been implemented to softraid > > will it make RAIDFRAME redundant? > > This is all future stuff, I think I'm right in saying that what's > needed first and

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/19 05:04, Siju George wrote: > One all the features in your mind has been implemented to softraid > will it make RAIDFRAME redundant? This is all future stuff, I think I'm right in saying that what's needed first and foremost is test reports for the less popular machine architectures.

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-18 Thread Ray Percival
On Nov 18, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Siju George wrote: I know I cannot escape recompiling the kernel because it is necessary for updates. But as far as possible I would like to stay away from it on production machines :-) That's what releases are for. Thanks a million for all the detailed answer

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-18 Thread Siju George
On Nov 18, 2007 7:46 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:32:58AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Thank you so much > > > > Most of your questions are around rebuild or derivatives. This does not > exist yet. My current push is to get softraid working on all a

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:32:58AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Nov 17, 2007 12:04 AM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll take this as the documentation isn't good enough. Can you point me > > to the area that isn't clear? > > > > Thanks for the offer Marco. > I currently use R

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-17 Thread Siju George
On Nov 17, 2007 12:04 AM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll take this as the documentation isn't good enough. Can you point me > to the area that isn't clear? > Thanks for the offer Marco. I currently use RAIDFRAME for Raid 1 A few doubts that remain after I have read the man page

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:26:32PM -0700, Chris Cameron wrote: > I thought the manpage was just covering things that worked well, and in > the code itself were things waiting to be tested better. It shows a "3 > chunk raid 1" setup, but doesn't mention anything about hot standby. I'm > not aware

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Chris Cameron
I thought the manpage was just covering things that worked well, and in the code itself were things waiting to be tested better. It shows a "3 chunk raid 1" setup, but doesn't mention anything about hot standby. I'm not aware of 3 disk RAID 1 otherwise. Also, for some reason (I think past misc

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/16/07, Chris Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in a good position to test Softraid on an AMD and an UltraSPARC, > however I've realized I don't know a lot about it (what -exactly- it's > working to accomplish, and commands to use). > > Is there an overview of Softraid to get me started

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll take this as the documentation isn't good enough. Can you point me to the area that isn't clear? On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:29:20AM -0700, Chris Cameron wrote: > I'm in a good position to test Softraid on an AMD and an UltraSPARC, > however I've realized I don't know a lot about it (what -e

Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Chris Cameron
I'm in a good position to test Softraid on an AMD and an UltraSPARC, however I've realized I don't know a lot about it (what -exactly- it's working to accomplish, and commands to use). Is there an overview of Softraid to get me started so I can be of some use? Chris