Re: raid10??

From: Héctor González <cacho(at)genac.org>
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 14:00:51 EST

randall wrote:
> Héctor González wrote:
>

>> With mdadm you can make RAID10, is there a problem here I just don't see?
>>
>> my mdadm.conf has this for one server with 4 500GB disks, md0 is 1 TB.
>>
>> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid10 num-devices=4
>> UUID=9fbd86dc:518e4bf3:c0ae5f04:5c65c500
>>
>>
>> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:23:25AM +0100, randall wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> i have just installed with the debian installer making 2 x raid1 and
>>>> then glueing them together with LVM
>>>> 256 MB /boot raid 1 (on all 4 disks)
>>>> 10 GB /root raid1 + lvm
>>>> 1 GB /swap raid1 + lvm
>>>> 500 GB unused raid1 + lvm
>>>>
>>>> (i wasn't very sure what to do about the swap but i think this means
>>>> slower but securer in a case of crashing)
>>>>
>>>> till so far the performance feels pretty snappy but i still have to do
>>>> some benchmarking and remove a few random disks to see what happens.
>>>>
>>>> anybody ever reliably used a set up like this in production?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I run a similar setup on many production servers.  On one, for example,
>>> I have four disks.  I create two RAID1 arrays, /dev/md0 and /dev/md1.
>>> Then I create a LVM volume group, adding both /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 as
>>> physical volumes.  Then I create whatever logical volumes I want.  It
>>> works very well.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -Roberto
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     

> no problem, just some time left to try out different options ;)

>

> and i was just about to try that way, any pointers about the install you
> are willing to share?

>

> should be something as follows i figured, can you include /boot this way?

>

> sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /dev/hdb etc......

>

> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[ab]1

> mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[cd]1
> mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md[01]

>
>
>

>

Well, if memory doesn't fail, I just did something like:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd[bcde]1

I don't boot currently from that raid, but it should work fine, if you told the mdadm package to include boot raid support.

-- 
Hector Gonzalez
cacho@genac.org
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Received on Tue Jan 29 14:01:51 2008