similar to: RAID questions

On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: > >> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >> without current data loss? > > Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous > activity (if the power fails or system crashes midway through

On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: > 1- Better to go with a hardware RAID (mainboardsupported) or software? I would only use hardware raid if its a card with battery (or supercap+flash) backed writeback cache, such as a megaraid, areca, etc. otherwise I would use mdraid mirroring. > 2 - Can an existing drive with data on it be used as aRAID drive without >

On 14/02/17 07:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: >> 1- Better to go with a hardware RAID (mainboardsupported) or software? > > I would only use hardware raid if its a card with battery (or > supercap+flash) backed writeback cache, such as a megaraid, areca, etc. > otherwise I would use mdraid mirroring. > >

On 4/13/11, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: >> to expand the array :) > > I haven't had problems doing it this way yet. I finally figured out my mistake creating the raid devices and got a working RAID 0 on two RAID 1 arrays. But I wasn't able to add another RAID 1 component to the array with the error mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/md/mdr1_3 as 2:

On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Blake Hudson <blake at ispn.net> wrote: > > Linux software RAID?has only decreased availability for me. This has been due to a combination of hardware and software issues that are are generally handled well by HW RAID controllers, but are often handled poorly or unpredictably by desktop oriented hardware and Linux software. Would you care to be more

On 2/16/2017 9:18 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM,tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: >> >>> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >>> without current data loss? >> Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous

Now the test for the Vertex 2 Pro. This was fun. For more explanation please see the thread "Crucial RealSSD C300 and cache flush?" This time I made sure the device is attached via 3GBit SATA. This is also only a short test. I''ll retest after some weeks of usage. cache enabled, 32 buffers, 64k blocks linear write, random data: 96 MB/s linear read, random data: 206 MB/s linear

Hey folks, Does anybody know if any of these are on the roadmap for ZFS, or have any idea how long it''s likely to be before we see them (we''re in no rush - late 2008 would be fine with us, but it would be nice to know they''re being worked on)? I''ve seen many people ask for the ability to expand a raid-z pool by adding devices. I''m wondering if it

I recently got a new SSD (ocz vertex LE 50gb) It seems to work really well as a ZIL performance wise. My question is, how safe is it? I know it doesn''t have a supercap so lets'' say dataloss occurs....is it just dataloss or is it pool loss? also, does the fact that i have a UPS matter? the numbers i''m seeing are really nice....these are some nfs tar times before

> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John R > Pierce > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 1:50 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage > > I've been using a HP Microserver for the last couple years as my home file > server, with FreeNAS, and 4x3TB drives. > >

On 2/18/2015 8:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Niki Kovacs<info at microlinux.fr> wrote: >> >Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >>> >> >>> >>"installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets >>> >>mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. >> >

Is it possible or will there be any problems with using mdraid on top of mdraid? specifically say mdraid 1/5 on top of mdraid multipath. e.g. 4 storage machines exporting iSCSI targets via two different physical network switches then use multipath to create md block devices then use mdraid on these md block devices The purpose being the storage array surviving a physical network switch

Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before. - Jussi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland Tel. +358 9 493 981 * Mobile +358 40 771 2098 (only sms) jussi.hirvi at greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi

Hey, I installed 2 new data servers with a big (12TB) RAID6 mdraid. I formated the whole arrays with bad blocks checks. One server is moderately used (nfs on one md), while the other not. One week later, after the raid-check from cron, I get on both servers a few block_mismatch... 1976162368 on the used one and a tiny bit less on the other...? That seems a tiny little bit high... I do the

On 01/11/2023 01:33 PM, H wrote: > On 01/11/2023 02:09 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> What I usually do is this: "cut" the large disk into several pieces of >> equal size and create individual RAID1 arrays. Then add them as LVM PVs to >> one large VG. The advantage is that with one error on one disk, you wont >> lose redundancy on the whole RAID mirror but only on

So I'm curious how SAS JBOD arrays and linux MDraid as implemented in CentOS6, and SES (SCSI/SAS Enclosure Services) backplane controllers 'get along' and how much configuration is needed to get the warning lights to work properly. scenario: whitebox server with a SAS backplane or two, daisy chained on a SAS HBA (like an LSI Logic 2008), and disks organized as several raid5/6

Hi list, I'm new with UEFI and GPT. For several years I've used MBR partition table. I've installed my system on software raid1 (mdadm) using md0(sda1,sdb1) for swap, md1(sda2, sdb2) for /, md2 (sda3,sdb3) for /home. From several how-to concerning raid1 installation, I must put each partition on a different md devices. I've asked times ago if it's more correct create the

Hi list, I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2 x 3TB on mdraid mirror) and for each hosts I've created a logical volume with related size. This 3 hosts have different data size with different disk change rate. Each host must have a limited sized resource and a reserved space. If a

I have 3 4TB WD drives I want to put in a RAID1 array. Two WD4000FYYZ and One WD4000F9YZ All enterprise class but two are WD Re and one is WD Se. I ordered the first two thinking 2 drives in the raid array would be sufficient but later decided its a long drive to the server so I would rather have 3 drives and ordered a third in accidentally did not get EXACT same thing. Would there be ANY

why will Centos 6 not boot from an mdraid 10 partition?