RAID solution handled by the operating system.
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Implementing Linux fstrim on SSD with software md-raid
I'm currently building a new Ubuntu 13.04 server with 2 256GB SSDs in a raid mirror to run a MariaDB instance. We typically place LVM on top of dm-crypt encryption on top of an md raid 1 array, but ...
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How to mount parition in from a working driver in RAID1
One of hard drives in array is dead, I'm unsure if it's raid0 or raid1, what I'm trying to achieve is mount the working drive and make a backup of what's left.
If I mount /dev/md127 then I can see ...
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1answer
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Grub can't find Xen multiboot file
I am running Debian Wheezy on a software RAID 0 with LVM. I'm trying to get Xen to work but grub refuses to boot in it. I installed Xen by following the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
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Email disappeared on qmail server
I'm beginning to be desperate regarding a mail that seems to have completely disappeared on my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS 64 bit server running qmail+vpopmail. Every domain has a .qmail-default containing ...
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How to hot mirror laptop disk onto external usb drive using kernel raid capabilities? [closed]
Please help me materialize my dreamed backup solution.
On my Debian (testing) laptop I'd like to be able to plug in my external USB drive (of identical size as my internal drive) and the system to ...
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Why is raid-check using so little io bandwidth?
Just out of curiosity, we have a RHEL server running software RAID. There's a cronjob which kicks off a raid data check every so often to check the consistency of the array. From my understanding, the ...
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Linux mdadm --grow RAID6: Something wrong - reshape aborted
I have a RAID60 that I want to expand.
The current is: 2 axles each having 9 disks + 2 spares.
The future is: 4 axles each having 10 disks + 1 spare.
So I need to do some --grow to reshape the ...
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/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdam1
When upgrading the kernel I get:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdam1.
Check your device.map.
Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/sdam1 failed.
Please report this ...
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it is good and safe to use debian software raid?
My questions is as simple as the title: it is good and safe to use debian6 software raid?
How safe it is?
Can i have a software RAID configuration backup?
How can i deal/recover with/from a HDD ...
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How to check RAID level on linux (dmraid)
I already know the RAID is a software RAID made with dmraid (or I assume so based on the fact that df-h shows /dev/mapper/VolGroup..., also /dev/md0 is inactive).
I've run dmraid -r and get:
...
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1answer
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ZFS about 7.2% disk space is lost
I know that ZFS reserves 1.6% disk space for copy-on-write. However, I am losing more than that. I have a ubuntu server with native ubuntu-zfs installed. The server has 45 drives, each 3TB. I am ...
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Remove “faulty state” in RAID 1
I wonder if there is any possibility to remove the state "faulty" in a RAID 1 if (for example) someone failed the wrong hard disk.
I already searched for answers with Google and fout several ...
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mdadm: Which disk is being rebuilt?
I noticed my software RAID1 degraded, and wanted to figure out which of the two disks in the array is being rebuilt/re-synced since they both show as being up. I am hoping someone can shed some light ...
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1answer
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mdadm - raid device name changed on reboot
I'm not sure why, but after I restarted my ec2 instance, /dev/md0 didn't start as it normally would. after I saw what's available in /dev/md*, instead of seeing /dev/md0, there is a device there named ...
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1answer
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VMware ESXi 5.1 can be installed RAID1 Software?
I am close to get a dedicated server in some data center and in the shopping cart there is no option to RAID1 Hardware only RAID1 by Software, since they will install ESXi it's possible that ESXi can ...
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1answer
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Does Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support booting from RAID 6?
I'm setting up a new Ubuntu server using 12.04.2 LTS. I have five drives that I am setting up in a RAID 6 with LVM. Can I use this for bootup? Or should I make a separate RAID 1 partition for bootup ...
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Mirror two software RAID volumes
I have two software RAID volumes of differing speed and reliability on Ubuntu 12.10. I want to mirror the contents of the faster, but less reliable /dev/md0 to /dev/md1.
My plan was to build a ...
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Setting up RAID 5 on Windows Server 2008 plus a bare metal restore
So here's my situation. I have three 1TB disks that I want to set up as RAID 5. One of these three disks has all my data on it and the other two are uninitialized.
I have a hot swap disk that has ...
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Raid 0+1 vs raid 1 and disk span in windows server 2012 [duplicate]
What is the difference between hardware raid 0+1 and 2 or more RAID 0 with disk span?
what are the differences: advantages and disadvantages?
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Need to rebuild array from EBS volumes on AWS
I shutdown a bunch of instances on our AWS account as we're no longer developing for a product. After shutting down everything, before hitting the delete button on the EBS volumes, we decided we would ...
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1answer
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Is 5MB/s a reasonable speed for Dell Software Raid Controller in Raid5
I have a new PowerEdge T320. Details are:
Intel Xeon E5-1410 @ 2.8 GHz
16GB
Windows Server 2008 r2 configured as Domain Controller
Dell PERC S110 Software Raid
4x 7200 rpm 1TB drives configured in ...
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1answer
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df showing wrong disk usage - disk corrupted
I'm getting a rather odd result from df from one of my disks using mdadm. It's setup as 4 of 2TB disks in raid 10.
# df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 ...
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Is RAID the right way to go on an Ubuntu 11.10 server running on old hardware? [closed]
I have an older computer running Ubuntu server 11.10. It has an 20GB IDE drive in it which is the main system drive. This system works great as a git repository, VPN, SSH, etc. I wanted to also have ...
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1answer
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High server load - [jbd2/md1-8] using 99.99% IO
I've been having spike in load over the last week. This usually occurs once or twice a day. I've managed to identify from iotop that [jbd2/md1-8] is using 99.99 % IO. During the high load times there ...
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1answer
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Fedora. Properly configure RAID1. Raid has name /md127
I have RAID1 with 2 3TB disks.
The general problem as I see is that for some reason this array have some problems with naming. It has md/19 md/19_0 and md127
My goal is to make this 3TB Raid1 ...
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1answer
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Will Windows Server 2008 R2 software RAID volume with “Failed Redundancy” be available during resynching?
In addition to this question: Windows Server software RAID volume constant "Failed Redundancy"
I have this problem on my production server too, but im concerned about resynching.
If I ...
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Fresh debian squeeze software raid install wont boot
I am following these instructions:
http://www.iprobot.net/linux-tutorial/how-to-setup-software-raid-in-debian-ubuntu/
(I used debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and DD'd that onto a usb key, ...
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1answer
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Migrating data from software raid mirror to ZFS mirror
With a setup with two disk is there a way to migrate from software RAID1 to ZFS mirror ?
This kind of procedure would be inspired by the migration that is possible from a disk stored on a single ...
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1answer
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Linux file system cache: Move data from Dirty to Writeback
My software RAID can write 800 MB/s sustained. I see that happening when cat /proc/meminfo |grep Writeback: returns > 2 GB. However, most of the time the writeback is round 0.5 GB which gives a ...
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1answer
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Linux: md Software RAID array out of sync
We had a CentOS server report this software RAID issue via /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check
WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md2
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Failing disks in RAID array - strategy suggestions required
I have a linux based software RAID 5 array. SMART has just started to send me emails complaining that one of the 5 disks has a Current Pending Sector Count of 9 and also an Offline Uncorrectable Count ...
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1answer
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Add generic rescue kernel on Gentoo
I have a Gentoo machine (64-bit) with software RAID on boot which was set up previously by someone who optimised the kernel for that machine.
Now I want to shift the disks to a new machine (also ...
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1answer
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Linux software RAID 10 array, failed drive, resize file system and migrate to a 3 drive RAID 1?
I have a software RAID 10 array which I recently noticed went into a degraded state. The OS is CentOS 5.8.
It has 4x 500GB drives in 3 different arrays:
/dev/md0 is RAID 1 and mounted to /boot (200MB ...
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Device in software RAID 10 array: clean, degraded. Ouch?
I've got 4x 500GB drives in software RAID.
/dev/md0 is RAID 1 and mounted to /boot
/dev/md1 is RAID 10 and is swap
/dev/md2 is RAID 10 and is the main system and data device
I looked at mdadm this ...
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1answer
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What would happen if the underlying OS running software RAID crashed?
For example, if I had either a Linux server running mdadm or Windows OS performing RAID at the software level, would data recovery be possible if the system crashed? Are there tools to access the ...
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1answer
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How do I preseed a simple RAID5 setup on Ubuntu Server? [closed]
I have three 2TB drives in the machine; I want a RAID5 of ~4TB capacity, and 100GB or so of swap space. No LVM, no encryption, no fanciness. This is easy to do using the interactive installer, but I'm ...
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Linux RAID10 hit bad disk while re-syncing. Is it hosed?
I have a Linux software RAID10 device on md0. It's made up of 4 1TB disks sd[abcd]. Yesterday Smart emailed me to say a disk was going bad (seek errors going up and reallocated sectors). I rebooted ...
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mdadm drive UUIDs chanaged, can they be changed back?
So I ran into this trouble and I believe I lost all my data..However I found an old mdadm --examine --scan file I made a month ago and an old mdadm.conf....Is it possible to use these two items to fix ...
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1answer
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mdadm rebooted, array missing? can't assemble?
Not sure what is going on with my Array. I rebooted ubuntu 12.04.1 and got a error on startup that fstab couldn't mount the filesystem UUID I have for my mdadm array. After running a few commands a I ...
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How do RAID 0 Offers improved i/0? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the different widely used RAID levels and when should I consider them?
I wonder how RAID 0 offers better i/o.
If i am not wrong in RAID 0 data gets split and ...
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2answers
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Mid-2011 Mac Mini Server keeps dropping a disk from RAID, not sure what to do about it
The small business that I do sysadmin work for on the side uses a mid-2011 Mac Mini Server (running 10.7 Lion) as a fileserver and FileMaker database host. Its 2 750gb HDDs are RAID 1'd together, and ...
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0answers
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How do you fix a software RAID1 partition with a bad superblock?
I have two identical 3 TB disks that were in a RAID1 array, where one disk crashed. I replaced the failed disk, but not after the RAID partitions got messed up.
I need to figure out how to restore ...
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1answer
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Adding Raid 1 to Raid 0 on Linux
I have a system already configured with raid 1 with 2 disks:
/dev/md1 918347072 249416692 621528596 29% /var
/dev/md0 9920532 160640 9247828 2% /tmp
# cat ...
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High I/O latency with software RAID, LUKS encrypted and LVM partitioned KVM setup
I found out a performance problems with a Mumble server, which I described in a previous question are caused by an I/O latency problem of unknown origin. As I have no idea what is causing this and how ...
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Removing a device in “removed” state from Linux software RAID array
My workstation has two disks(/dev/sd[ab]), both with similar partitioning. /dev/sdb failed, and cat /proc/mdstat stopped showing the second sdb partition.
I ran mdadm --fail and mdadm --remove for ...
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Windows Server 2008 Software Raid 5 - Data integrity issues
I've got a server running Windows Server 2008 R2, with a (windows native) software raid-5 array. The array consists of 7x 1TB Western Digital RE3 and RE4 drives. I have offline backups of this array.
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Single drive LVM to RAID6 LVM
I cloned my entire LVM volume group from a single drive to a RAID5 array with 3 disks. The VG is formed by these logical volumes:
root
swap
home
... and other volumes of some XEN virtual machines.
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How do I find out which disk in a multi-disk mdadm RAID1 triggered a rebuild?
I'm using mdadm for several RAID1 mirrors. md7 is an N-way mirror consisting of 3 spinning disks (all flagged write-mostly) and an SSD:
md7 : active raid1 sdd1[0] sde5[3](W) sdf5[4](W) sdc1[1](W)
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Linux software RAID - partition first?
I have two identical drives that I intend to mirror in in the interest of data safety. These are data-only drives, not a primary OS drive.
In such a system, is it better to create single partition ...
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iSCSI Distributed RAID?
Thinking about setting-up as distributed RAID array over iSCSI. Has anyone else tried this, if so what was your experience.
To be more specific I am thinking of a couple of CentOS servers each with ...
