Tom Bishop wrote:
> So I have been playing with a RAID 10 f2 ( 2 disks far layout)
> setup...thanks for all of the advice..Now I am playing with the format
> and want to make sure I have it setup the best that I can, my raid was
> built using the raid 10 option with 2 disks with the layout=far, chunk
> size 512....now I read all of the docs I could find about format and
> stride and stripe size and this is what i came up with...
>
> mkfs -t ext4 -E stride=128,stripe-width=32 /dev/md0
>
>
> Someone let meknow if this looks right, but since i only have two
> disks to get my stride 512/4k=128 and then to get my stripe 2/2*128/4=32
I have this in my notes for ext2/ext3 filesystem under raid 5. You will
have to see how your layout differs from raid5 in terms of distribution
of data across the disks.
# the optimal stride is given by:
#
# chunk size
# stride = ---------- * ( num disks )
# block size
#
#
Here is a framework of a script to test performance of various chunk
sizes (came off of some webpage a while ago). Optimal chunk size will
of course depend on your application and the size of your writes and files..
#
#
EXT2BLOCKSIZE=4096 # or 1024 or ???
#
for CHUNKSIZE in 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512
do
stride=$(( $CHUNKSIZE * 1024 / $EXT2BLOCKSIZE ))
..
.. create new /etc/raidtab and run the test
..
mke2fs -b $EXT2BLOCKSIZE -m 1 -Rstride=$stride /dev/mdxx
..
mount /dev/mdxx
..configurations
# whatever test ..
tiobench
bonnie
dd
..
done
#
#
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