From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maarten Subject: Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:34:24 +0100 Message-ID: <200501101734.24851.maarten@ultratux.net> References: <200501081749.32816.maarten@ultratux.net> <200501082001.09317.maarten@ultratux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501082001.09317.maarten@ultratux.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:01, maarten wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 17:49, maarten wrote: > > On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:52, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:57:35PM -0500, Guy wrote: > As the system is now online again, busy copying, I can show the exact > config: > Well all about the array is done and working fine up to now. Except one thing that I didn't anticipate: The application that's supposed to run has some problems under -I suppose- the new 2.4.28 kernel. I've had two panics / oopses in syslog already, and the process then is unkillable, so a reboot is in order. But I think that's bttv related, not the I/O layer. In any case I suffered through two lengthy raid resyncs already... ;-| So I've been shopping around for a *big* servercase today so I can put all disks (these 5, plus 6 from the current fileserver) in one big tower. I'll then use that over NFS and can revert back to my older working kernel. I've chosen a Chieftec case, as can be seen here http://www.chieftec.com/products/Workcolor/CA-01.htm and here in detail http://www.chieftec.com/products/Workcolor/NewBA.htm Nice drive cages, eh ? :-) P.S.: I get this filling up my logs. Should I be worried about that ? Jan 10 11:30:32 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512 --> 4096 Jan 10 11:30:33 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 512 Jan 10 11:30:33 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512 --> 4096 Jan 10 11:30:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 512 Maarten