Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-31 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> vgcreate vg2t /dev/sda /dev/sdb > lvcreate --type raid0 -name lv-stg --size 16700GiB vg2t I solved the problem by manually activating it initially. On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 10:41 PM Tom Dial wrote: > > > > On 5/28/21 12:58, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > >> Is your &#

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-29 Thread Tom Dial
f you did not specify an allocation rule in the lvcreate command that created the volume group. Based on my experience and existing volume groups, it also is the default for vgcreate command if nothing else is specified. The above also shows "LV Status NOT available". That likely indicates

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 28 May 2021 21:10:03 +0200 john doe wrote: > On 5/28/2021 8:58 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > >> Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated? > > > > There is no encrypted volume. > > > > That file (1) needs to be populated for it to work at boot! :) No, not if (as M. Atmaca has alr

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 09:31:06PM +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Additionally I found something like the following in the dmesg logs. > ... > [Fri May 28 14:14:22 2021] device-mapper: table: 253:2: raid: Failed > to run raid array > [Fri May 28 14:14:22 2021] device-mapper: table: 253:

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> That file (1) needs to be populated for it to work at boot! :) thanks, i didn't know. I will check it. :) On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 10:10 PM john doe wrote: > > On 5/28/2021 8:58 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > >> Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated? > > > > There is no encrypted volume.

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread john doe
On 5/28/2021 8:58 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated? There is no encrypted volume. That file (1) needs to be populated for it to work at boot! :) 1) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/System_configuration#Mounting_at_boot_time -- John Doe

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> Is your '/etc/crypttab' file properly populated? There is no encrypted volume. On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:37 PM john doe wrote: > > On 5/28/2021 8:31 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > > Additionally I found something like the following in the dmesg logs. > > > > [Fri May 28 14:14:19 2021] x86/cpu: VMX

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread john doe
On 5/28/2021 8:31 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: Additionally I found something like the following in the dmesg logs. [Fri May 28 14:14:19 2021] x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS [Fri May 28 14:14:20 2021] r8169 :06:00.0: unknown chip XID 641 [Fri May 28 14:14:22 2021] device-mapper: tabl

Re: LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Additionally I found something like the following in the dmesg logs. [Fri May 28 14:14:19 2021] x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS [Fri May 28 14:14:20 2021] r8169 :06:00.0: unknown chip XID 641 [Fri May 28 14:14:22 2021] device-mapper: table: 253:2: raid: Failed to run raid array [Fr

LVM raid0

2021-05-28 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello I did LVM raid 0. But when reboot the disks come as "inherit". What would be the reason ? lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Path/dev/vg2t/lv-st0 LV Namelv-st0 VG Namevg2t LV UUIDJOfIdw-8uhQ-OvsF-4Sdp-LMDm-NEVv-UMjFD

Re: GRUB on RAID0 software

2019-07-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/07/2019 à 00:26, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone, I can not install GRUB on Debian 10.It's fail every time. AFAIK GRUB supports RAID and most software RAID levels (only "linear" is not supported). How does it fail ? What is the error message ? What is displayed in the log console

Re: Raid0

2018-11-05 Thread David Christensen
On 11/5/18 9:17 AM, Finariu Florin wrote: Hi, Hi. :-) Somebody can help me with some information about why I can not see the Raid0 created in bios? I have a motherboard EPC602D8A with 2 chipsets: Intel C602 (Sata 2 x 4, Sata 3 x 2) and Marvell SE9172 (Sata 3 x 2). I create in BIOS a Raid0

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Matthias, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:15:43PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > I am using Mint LMDE2 with debian backports. So I do have kernel > 4.4+71~bpo8+1 running. > btrfs tools are from debian stable, which has version 3.17. I am wondering if > it would make sense to also get the too

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hello Andy, I am trying to stay with newest versions as long as it does not jeopardize stability. I am using Mint LMDE2 with debian backports. So I do have kernel 4.4+71~bpo8+1 running. btrfs tools are from debian stable, which has version 3.17. I am wondering if it would make sense to also ge

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
You are right. I did the same test with dd. It took a while ;-) 23# dd if=/dev/zero of=file.zero dd: Schreiben in „file.zero“: Auf dem Gerät ist kein Speicherplatz mehr verfügbar 1462670786+0 Datensätze ein 1462670785+0 Datensätze aus 748887441920 Bytes (749 GB) kopiert, 14831,9 s, 50,5 MB/s 24#

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread David Christensen
On 04/16/2016 12:00 AM, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: I have 3 hard drive with 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB. I want to use btrfs as filesystem. This will be my first test installation of btrfs. My target is to get redundancy as well as a 750 GB data capacity. So I was thinking to create a raid0

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 01:35:20PM +0200, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso wrote: > Still btrfs is quite young, I am not sure if there are serious issues in > 3.17, > I would make some experiments before actual use. If you are going to use btrfs I would consider it essential to be subscribed to

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso
On sábado, 16 de abril de 2016 12:05:05 (CEST) Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > 38# df -h /mnt/test/ > Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf > /dev/sdg 699G 17M 466G 1% /mnt/test df is not reliable for btrfs raids, it is better to use btrfs fi df to check actual used space. Using b

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
I have 3 hard drive with 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB. I want to use btrfs as >>> filesystem. This will be my first test installation of btrfs. >>> >>> My target is to get redundancy as well as a 750 GB data capacity. So I was >>> thinking to create a raid0 with the

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
250 GB. I want to use btrfs as >> filesystem. This will be my first test installation of btrfs. >> >> My target is to get redundancy as well as a 750 GB data capacity. So I was >> thinking to create a raid0 with the 500 and 250 GB drive. This would result >> in a raid0

Re: btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso
0 GB data capacity. So I was > thinking to create a raid0 with the 500 and 250 GB drive. This would result > in a raid0 with 750 GB capacity. I want to add this raid0 as a mirror in a > raid1 with the other 750 GB drive. > > But how do I do that? > > Thanks > Matthias Disc

btrfs: mixing raid0 and raid1 - How?

2016-04-16 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hello, I have 3 hard drive with 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB. I want to use btrfs as filesystem. This will be my first test installation of btrfs. My target is to get redundancy as well as a 750 GB data capacity. So I was thinking to create a raid0 with the 500 and 250 GB drive. This would

Re: Poor SSD RAID0 Performance

2015-09-16 Thread ray
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 2:50:05 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > > > Using Linux software RAID0, my speed (MB/s) findings are: > > Single SSDRAID0, 2 SSDs > > Intel SATA III540 960 > > Intel SATA II

Re: Poor SSD RAID0 Performance

2015-09-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
ray a écrit : > > Using Linux software RAID0, my speed (MB/s) findings are: > Single SSDRAID0, 2 SSDs > Intel SATA III540 960 > Intel SATA II 530 535 SATA II has a maximum throughput of 300 MB/s, so I wonder how you can reach 530 MB/

Re: Poor SSD RAID0 Performance

2015-09-15 Thread ray
To follow-up: The SATA controllers are on an Asus P9X79-E WS. The controllers consist of: Intel SATA III, 2 ports Intel SATA II, 4 ports Marvel SATA III, 4 ports I had previously benchmarked controller based RAID0 and Linux RAID0 and found the software solution on this box was 10% slower than

Poor SSD RAID0 Performance

2015-09-13 Thread ray
ec. In the RAID0 configuration, the speed vary significantly: 30+30 535 MB/sec 60+60 720 MB/sec 120+120 1040 MB/sec For the 30G modules, the RAID0 slows down performance. I would like to know how I can trouble shoot this poor performance. Any suggestions?

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > PS: You did not comment whether the "pipe' command that I use to verify > grub has a general validity. As far as I could use it, I found it > equivalent to examining each disk, one at a time. It was clever! It was definitely in the spirit of the Unix philosophy. At the

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello: I know that a correct software mirror raid is subject to failures, when anything wrong is written to both disks. And I also know that hardware mirror raid is subject to hardware failures. I said at the beginning that I keep two wheezy mirror-raid servers with the same data and software. Now

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is > something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with > very limited ability in recovering from disk failures. I must express concern. While RAID is very useful to keeping a sys

Fwd: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-09 Thread Francesco Pietra
13 at 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0 To: debian-users , amd64 Debian < debian-am...@lists.debian.org> I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very limited ability in re

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is > something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very > limited ability in recovering from disk failures. > > I planned to use the double-

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-08 Thread Francesco Pietra
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very limited ability in recovering from disk failures. I planned to use the double-opteron, two sockets, server, tya 64, as a victim for the test you su

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu. Press a key on the keyboard before the 5 second count down timer counts all of the way down. Pressing a key stops the timer and causes it to stay on the menu waiting for keyboard input. Bob signature.asc Des

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-07 Thread Francesco Pietra
I have no other machines than the said two servers. As soon as a machine was dismissed, parts were recovered for the new machines. Does not matter, I'll try. What I was also asking, however, was how to boot to the grub only: I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu. > > With bot

Re: Fwd: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Klaus wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: > >I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu. > > When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on > screen. After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is > selected and the boot sequence continues. For details, here is

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years > ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon > time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are > difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> >> recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put forward >> that it doesn't really matter. If you have RAID then you know you >> want grub on both disks. After installing simply run the grub install >> script against both dis

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra > wrote: >> >> Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know - >> before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set >> grub on both disks of raid

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know - > before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set > grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced. No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Fwd: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-05 Thread Klaus
On 05/10/13 09:00, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu. When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on screen. After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is selected and the boot sequence continues. For details, here is t

Fwd: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-05 Thread Francesco Pietra
From: Francesco Pietra Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0 To: debian-users , amd64 Debian < debian-am...@lists.debian.org> Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years ago. However the poor way I described. I'll d

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-05 Thread Francesco Pietra
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be at a single server, insecure as

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > After installing simply run the grub install script against both > > disks manually and then you will be assured that it has been > > installed on both disks. > > I had problems with that methodology and was unable to detect my error. > >From a threa

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-04 Thread Francesco Pietra
t; > Now I am in the same situation, two servers with mirroring raid, grub on /dev/sda only. Identical data on both servers to cope with grub on one disk only. Not smart from my side. > I agree with the other responder. It is unlikely IMNHO that you want > RAID0 (striping) for the sy

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
ponder. It is unlikely IMNHO that you want RAID0 (striping) for the system disk. You most likely want RAID1 (mirroring) instead. The answer above is the same regardless. If you are thinking striping for performance instead I recommend using an SSD for the system disk. Bob signature.asc Descri

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-03 Thread recoverym4n
Installing any OS on a RAID 0 (striping) is very strange thing to do - considering that disk failure in a RAID 0 = everything on this RAID0 is lost. Maybe you've meant RAID1 (mirroring)? Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello: Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know - before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced. Thanks francesco pietra

debian 6.0.7 amd64 raid0 lvm crypt - bootloader issue

2013-04-09 Thread shmick
Hi all, Having installed debian onto a hardware raid pc setup, using dmraid=true switch, I attempt to repair the failed grub/lilo bootlader install after rebooting into rescue, again with dmraid=true How can I get grub installed? Background info: Partitioning setup according to guided lvm cry

Re: Debian on RAID0 with Wheezy

2013-02-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
mode Drives 2 and 3 in RAID0, splitted in 2 x 2TB folders Installation is going weel, GRUB installed on the first disk. While it's installating, from alt-f2 I looked at the dev folder and I'm able to see the Volume0px files. After restart. grub is staring correctly, but it's not ab

Re: Debian on RAID0 with Wheezy

2013-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Small update. I have installed a 3rd drive to try another option. All 3 exactly the same, 3 x 2TB. 1st drive in standard mode Drives 2 and 3 in RAID0, splitted in 2 x 2TB folders Installation is going weel, GRUB installed on the first disk. While it's installating, from alt-f2 I looked a

Debian on RAID0 with Wheezy

2013-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Spaggiari
Hi, I'm trying for the 2 last days to install a Debian Wheezy on a RAID0 drive but I'm facing many issues. I have 2 x 2TB drives configured in a 4TB RAID0 drive. I initially used the b3 net installer but it was missing the grub bios partition. Now, I'm using B4, starting it w

Re: Slow write on raid0/mdadm with ext4

2010-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Myers put forth on 10/29/2010 1:31 AM: > Hi, whenever I start writing more than 100MB to the raid, it starts going > 200KB/s and the iowait shown on "top" goes to 99%.. The disks lock up > completely, shown on iostat. What would cause something like this? More details would probably be helpf

Slow write on raid0/mdadm with ext4

2010-10-28 Thread Jason Myers
Hi, whenever I start writing more than 100MB to the raid, it starts going 200KB/s and the iowait shown on "top" goes to 99%.. The disks lock up completely, shown on iostat. What would cause something like this?

RAID0 + LVM solved (was Re: L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99)

2009-12-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>  After setting up RAID0 using DELL SAS utility, I could try another >> installation of a debian stable 503 from USB Stick. >>  I

Last block device in striped LV or soft RAID0 would have longer await?

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, As I am trying some configurations for storage solution. I found out that, the last block device (normally, by alphabet) in striped LV or soft RAID 0 will have longer await. Especially in high concurrency IO. The same time, its avgrq-sz is more than others, but rrqm/s, wrqm/s, r/s and

Re: Adding third drive to existing raid0 set

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
. > Does it work in conjunction with the raid tools like mdadm or is this > something completely different? It is something completely different, but they compliment each other nicely. One of the downfalls of LVM is that (like your raid0) if you lose one disk, you pretty much lose the whole files

Re: Adding third drive to existing raid0 set

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:47:46PM -0400, Tom Moore wrote: > Hi guys. > I've got a machine with two drives in a raid0 config. > I've added a third drive to this machine. I am not using lvm. > If I want to add this third drive in to the md device how would I go > about

Re: Adding third drive to existing raid0 set

2007-09-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:47:46PM -0400, Tom Moore wrote: > Hi guys. > I've got a machine with two drives in a raid0 config. > I've added a third drive to this machine. I am not using lvm. > If I want to add this third drive in to the md device how would I go > about

Adding third drive to existing raid0 set

2007-09-19 Thread Tom Moore
Hi guys. I've got a machine with two drives in a raid0 config. I've added a third drive to this machine. I am not using lvm. If I want to add this third drive in to the md device how would I go about doing this? I added the third drive in to the mdadm config file and set the partition

Re: RAID0 Set-up?

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:35, Gary Catalano wrote: > Anyone have experience setting up RAID on Debian Testing etch-3 (or > something similar?) I'm having a bear of a time. I did it, but you have to do a few things which are not straight forward. This is approximately how I did it assuming t

RAID0 Set-up?

2006-09-11 Thread Gary Catalano
Title: RAID0 Set-up? Anyone have experience setting up RAID on Debian Testing etch-3 (or something similar?)  I'm having a bear of a time. Gary Catalano

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-14 Thread Lars Boegild Thomsen
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. > Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 > and RAID5. > > As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of RAID-1s, I tried such a > scenario:

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le mercredi 9 ao?t 2006 16:18, Tomasz Chmielewski a ?crit?: I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5. As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mercredi 9 août 2006 16:18, Tomasz Chmielewski a écrit : > I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. > Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 > and RAID5. > > As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of RAID-1s, I tried su

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. > Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 > and RAID5. Supposing you don't have a *really* good reason to want to use the RAID10 mode (not

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Larry Irwin wrote: It is so much better to use hardware raid. And it's even better if you properly utilize a dual-channel raid controller. Any ideas how to install a hardware raid controller into this device? http://www.thecus.com/products_ove

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Larry Irwin wrote: It is so much better to use hardware raid. And it's even better if you properly utilize a dual-channel raid controller. Any ideas how to install a hardware raid controller into this device? http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1&pid=2 It's just not possible. Besid

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Irwin
i" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible? I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5. As RAID-10

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: (...) How can I set up RAID-10 (or RAID-0 on top of RAID-1) using the Debian installer? (...) Seeing how RAID-10 is still experimental in the kernel, the installer will probably not support it for awhile. I'd suggest yo

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5. As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of RAID-1s, I tried such a scenario: -R0

RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5. As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of RAID-1s, I tried such a scenario: -R0- | | R1 R1

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:51 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > That's why I qualified my statement with "large bits of data". > [snip] > > but if your files are less than one chunk-size... does that mean > it all gets written to one disk ?? With raid 0, I

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's why I qualified my statement with "large bits of data". :-) > > same for 100GB files .. to split it into 2x 50GB each > > on each spindle > > > > should be a fun driver to write(if needed), config and test > > Doesn't the md driver d

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 20:31 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Sure you will. If you are dealing with large bits of data, > > writing to it will be N times faster because the computer writes > > chunks of data to the disks in parallel. > > yup.. if you read/

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > Sure you will. If you are dealing with large bits of data, > writing to it will be N times faster because the computer writes > chunks of data to the disks in parallel. yup.. if you read/write data from the the 2 spindles can the ide drivers be told

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
t > to read 2x faster > > raid0 is stripping ... just making two 40GB disks looking like one bigger > 80GB disk ... you will NOT get any performance benefits from raid0 Sure you will. If you are dealing with large bits of data, writing to it will be N times faster because the

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > How is that? The RAID1 on my system read at nearly 2x the speed of a > single drive. raid1 is mrirror .. same data on both disks ... so you should expect to read 2x faster raid0 is stripping ... just making two 40GB disks lookin

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:57:31PM -0200, Bruno Diniz wrote: > I´m running kernel 2.6.8 from stable. After trying a lot of possible > solutions, I faced (possibly) the solution. This machine has four memory > slots and is able to deal with 4GB. When I use the four 1GB memory chips, I > get the syst

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Diniz
t that bad, with 2.6.13, but it'sdefinately slower than earlier 2.6 kernels. raid0 performance used to bevery good. raid1 has always sucked (reads no faster than a single drive)./dev/md0:Timing buffered disk reads:  322 MB in   3.01 seconds = 107.06 MB/sec/dev/sda:Timing buffered disk reads:  216 M

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:05 -0200, Bruno Diniz wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a system with two S-ATA hard disks and I configured raid0 with > them using mdadm. Each HD has 200GB of capacity. What is weird is that > after configuring the raid, the newly created device (/dev/md0) i

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:45:35AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Are those SCSI disks or IDE disks that are being accessed via SCSI > emulation? They're sata, on a sil3114. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:33:05AM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:35:05AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > How is that? The RAID1 on my system read at nearly 2x the speed of a > > single drive. Writing is where the performance is not nearly as good. > > But the, I am usin

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:35:05AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > How is that? The RAID1 on my system read at nearly 2x the speed of a > single drive. Writing is where the performance is not nearly as good. > But the, I am using IDE drives with each of the two drive son its own > channel. No

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
nds = 59.81 MB/sec > > /dev/md0: > > Timing buffered disk reads: 134 MB in 3.04 seconds = 44.09 MB/sec > > What kernel are you running? I don't have it that bad, with 2.6.13, but it's > definately slower than earlier 2.6 kernels. raid0 performance used to be > very

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Vier
seconds = 44.09 MB/sec What kernel are you running? I don't have it that bad, with 2.6.13, but it's definately slower than earlier 2.6 kernels. raid0 performance used to be very good. raid1 has always sucked (reads no faster than a single drive). /dev/md0: Timing buffered disk rea

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew Whitlock
> I have a system with two S-ATA hard disks and I configured raid0 with them > using mdadm. Each HD has 200GB of capacity. What is weird is that after > configuring the raid, the newly created device (/dev/md0) is slower than > each of the disks individually. Look at the numbers: <

Running slower after raid0

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Diniz
Hi all, I have a system with two S-ATA hard disks and I configured raid0 with them using mdadm. Each HD has 200GB of capacity. What is weird is that after configuring the raid, the newly created device (/dev/md0) is slower than each of the disks individually. Look at the numbers: hdparm -Tt /dev

Re: raid0 / "operating system not found"

2005-08-19 Thread michael
Quoting Mike Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: yesterday I tried installing Debian onto a raid0 array using this guide <http://tnt.aufbix.org/linux/raid/>, but it quickly became too overwhelming for me, so I quit the installation and went through an installation like I always have (net

raid0 / "operating system not found"

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Wyatt
yesterday I tried installing Debian onto a raid0 array using this guide <http://tnt.aufbix.org/linux/raid/>, but it quickly became too overwhelming for me, so I quit the installation and went through an installation like I always have (netinstall from woody floppies). everything installs fin

Promise Fastrack 378 Raid0 and debian

2005-01-08 Thread Roman Bobruška
hello, If the following problem is already solved, sorry - I didn't found any helpfull advice.. Configuration: Asus P4C800E Deluxe Promise Fastrack 378 2 SATA HDDs Seagate 160GB 7200rpm on proprietary promise hw/sw RAID0 I have W2K on Raid0 array

Promise Fastrack 378 Raid0 and debian

2005-01-08 Thread Roman Bobruška
hello, If the following problem is already solved, sorry - I didn't found any helpfull advice.. Configuration: Asus P4C800E Deluxe Promise Fastrack 378 2 SATA HDDs Seagate 160GB 7200rpm on proprietary promise hw/sw RAID0 I have W2K on Raid0 array

Re: OT: Raid0 Force Online

2004-10-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:35:29 +0930, David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopelessly offtopic queston, but oh well, someone here is bound to have > more clue than me. > > We have a Dell 600SC server with IDE Raid0 (two disks). This morning it > was making load beeping no

OT: Raid0 Force Online

2004-10-21 Thread David Purton
Hopelessly offtopic queston, but oh well, someone here is bound to have more clue than me. We have a Dell 600SC server with IDE Raid0 (two disks). This morning it was making load beeping noises and claimed that one of its disks had failed. Just to see what would happen, we forced the failed

Re: dual boot xp/debian on raid0

2004-07-04 Thread Ian
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:24:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to install debian on asus p4p800, > with e1000, and ichr5 chipset raid0 on sata. > > I have tried two weeks ago. > I installed with kernel-2.4.23 and patchs iswraid,libata. > (sorry, I don

dual boot xp/debian on raid0

2004-07-02 Thread jfqb
I want to install debian on asus p4p800, with e1000, and ichr5 chipset raid0 on sata. I have tried two weeks ago. I installed with kernel-2.4.23 and patchs iswraid,libata. (sorry, I don't remember version's patchs). But the system fall down, when I run on XP, Linux fall d

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
* snip * >It sounds simple, but if you get into trouble, you might want to search the >archives for problems other people have had, or you might want to check out >this link: >http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ > >It's quite complete, very recent, and a good resource. I recommend reading

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 08:56, Harland Christofferson wrote: > *snip* > > > > >What is the partition type on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1? If they > >are not both > >FD (Linux raid autodetect), your raid array won't work. > > the partition type? okay ... new territory for me. they are ext2 > w/ ID of 8

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 15 June 2004, you wrote: >On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:53, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a >> new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. >> /dev/hdc is newly partit

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:53, Harland Christofferson wrote: > this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a > new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. > /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installing the > raid tools. &

raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installing the raid tools. kernel version is 2.4.18-k7 i installed raidtools2 and mdadm. i created a new

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