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Linux – Software RAID speed

casper — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:54:23 +0000

Having reshaped a RAID5 twice of as many weeks, I’ve found that adding a 2TB drive takes a good 36 hours, which is kind of frustrating.

After a bit of searching, I discovered that there is a setting in /sys/block/md*/md/stripe_cache_size which by default is set to 256. This is enough for normal day operations, but [...]

Missing …..

casper — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:40:51 +0000

Most if not all of the photos in the posts are gone.. No I did not loose them, well kind of – on purpose…

After 5 years I felt that I needed some new hardware for my server, and one of the things I decided was to move all my photos to smugmug, where [...]

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas

casper — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:16:59 +0000

As a follow up on my comments in â€œFive crucial things the Linux community doesnâ€™t understand about the average computer userâ€, I saw a reference to this interview with Con Kolivas on /., who until recently was the maintainer of the -ck tree (linux kernel patch tree).

Even though people are already [...]

“Five crucial things the Linux community doesnâ€™t understand about the average computer user”

casper — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:04:52 +0000

I wrote â€œThe end of the Mac roadâ€???, as a response to Ian Betteridge, now it seams that things have happened in “choose your OS” world….

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet have written a comment to “why does people still use Windows” discussion.

First installment: Five crucial things the Linux community doesnâ€™t [...]

“The end of the Mac road”???

casper — Sun, 13 May 2007 00:23:22 +0000

I was reading this entry on Ian Betteridge blog, where he talks about his switch from OSX to Gnu/Linux (Ubunto), not that I have any specfic issues with that.

But one thing which stands out was this sentence: “First up, letâ€™s look at what this move is not: Itâ€™s not a [...]