Managing RAID on Linux - Derek Vadala [133]
boot message, dmesg command, System initialization
bootable DOS diskette, Preparing Controllers and Disks
bootstrap, defined, An Organizational Overview
bottlenecks, Storage Area Network (SAN), RAID-1 (Mirroring), An Organizational Overview, An Organizational Overview, Bus-width and bus-speed, Choosing Hard Drives, Actuator arm, RAID-4 (Dedicated Parity)
analog, Actuator arm
defined, An Organizational Overview
I/O bus, Bus-width and bus-speed
SAN solution, Storage Area Network (SAN)
Bovet, Daniel P., Bibliography
Brown, Neil, Kernel Configuration, Summary of Kernel Upgrades, Working with Software RAID, Kernel Options
Buchanan, William, Bibliography
building a RAID system, Power
burst rate, defined, Maximum data throughput
bus-speed, defined, Motherboards and the PCI Bus
bus-width, defined, Motherboards and the PCI Bus
C
cable select, Master and slave
cables, Matched drives, Cases, Cables, and Connectors
length limits, Cases, Cables, and Connectors
cache, Controller Memory, Write Cache, Write-back caching, Write-back caching
memory, Controller Memory, Write Cache
write-back, Write-back caching
write-through, Write-back caching
cancel-consistency-check command, The Global Array Manager (GAM)
cancel-rebuild command, The Global Array Manager (GAM)
Cesati, Marco, Bibliography
chattr command, Access time
check-consistency command, The Global Array Manager (GAM)
checksum, /etc/mdadm.conf
chipset, defined, An Organizational Overview
chunk size, defined, Stripe-size versus chunk-size
chunk-size option (/etc/raidtab file), and RAID-1, The /etc/raidtab File
clock rate, Bus-width and signaling rates
configuring, Getting Started: Building a Software RAID, FreeDOS, Configuring the ataraid Driver, Configuring Hard Disk Parameters, Filesystem read-ahead
ataraid drivers, Configuring the ataraid Driver
hard disks, Configuring Hard Disk Parameters
issues, FreeDOS
kernel, Getting Started: Building a Software RAID
saving hard disk settings, Filesystem read-ahead
connectors, Connectors, Connectors, Single connector attachment (SCA)
custom SCSI cables, Connectors
single connector attachment (SCA), Single connector attachment (SCA)
controller card BIOS, FreeDOS
controller disk spin-up, Logical Drives
controller memory, Motherboard and System Compatibility
Cox, Alan, Configuring the kernel
Create and Build modes,
creating an array, Creating an Array
cylinders, defined, Actuator arm
D
DAC960 driver, The DAC960 Driver, Configuring the kernel
data buffer, defined, Maximum data throughput
data bus, defined, An Organizational Overview
data loss, Reusing member disks
dd command, for erasing RAID superblock, Reusing member disks
de Icaza, Miguel, Kernel 2.4
de Melo, Arnaldo Carvalho, 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller
Debian, raidtools-0.42, Installing Directly to ReiserFS, Creating a filesystem, Building the XFS Utilities
and ReiserFS, Installing Directly to ReiserFS
building XFS utilities, Building the XFS Utilities
installing JFS utilities, Creating a filesystem
raidtools version 0.42, raidtools-0.42
debugreiserfs command, reiserfsck, reiserfstune, and debugreiserfs
Degraded mode, Degraded, Degraded Mode
defined, Degraded
Devfs-style naming system, Configuring the kernel
Device Filesystem (Devfs), Problems with Hot-Swap and Disk Replacement
DEVICE lines, DEVICE lines
device option (/etc/raidtab file), The /etc/raidtab File
device special names, Configuring the kernel
disk access protocols, Disk Access Protocols, The AT Attachment (ATA) and Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE), The AT Attachment (ATA) and Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE)
ATA, The AT Attachment (ATA) and Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE)
IDE, The AT Attachment (ATA) and Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE)
disk bus, defined, An Organizational Overview
Disk Druid, Installation, Red Hat
disk elevators, tuning, Filesystem read-ahead
disk failure, Redundancy, Disk Failures, Failed disks, BigBrother, BigBrother, BigBrother, Automatic Failover to a Spare Disk, Automatic Failover