Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:07:47AM -0800, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > > > > > hi ya andrew > > > raid can break due to: > > > - (1) disk failures > > > - the silly system takes forever ( dayz ) to resync itself > > > - too many

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
whatup alvin, Alvin Oga said: >> I think I'm just going to put spare backup disk in the system. > > usually simpler to use 1 disk for spare.. as long as everythng > fit and you dont have to worry about any config errors > >> >> I've found that some volumes just break sync, >> I have a raid 5 parti

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > What I meant, was if it is a partition size the resync will occur faster > then if it is a giant partition size. makes no difference ... "100GB of data to sync" is 100GB of data no matter how small .. but if you spread 100GB to 20GB each

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > > hi ya andrew > > raid can break due to: > > - (1) disk failures > > - the silly system takes forever ( dayz ) to resync itself > > - too many disks failures renders the entire raid useless > > or the system can be on a non-raided d

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: >> I've decided to start making my raid >> syncs into smaller sizes, so they can resync back faster. > > the size of the "raid" has NOTHING to do with "resync" faster in general > > the number of files and data that have to be sync between the > degraded raid and the newly inserte