Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks

[maarten <maarten@ultratux.net>]

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