Re: new "large" fileserver config questions

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On 10/01/12 8:39 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
> The controller node has two 90GB SSDs that I plan to use as a
> bootable RAID1 system disk.  What is the preferred method for laying
> out the RAID array?

a server makes very little use of its system disks after its booted, 
everything it needs ends up in cache pretty quickly.  and you typically 
don't reboot a server very often.   why waste SSD for that?

I'd rather use SSD for something like LSI Logic's CacheCade v2 (but this 
requires you use a LSI SAS raid card too)

> 2) With large arrays you often hear about "aligning the filesystem to
> the disk".  Is there a fairly standard way (I hope using only CentOS
> tools) of going about this?  Are the various mkfs tools smart enough to
> figure out how an array is aligned on its own, or is sysadmin
> intervention required on such large arrays?  (If it helps any, the disk
> array is backed by a 3ware 9750 controller.  I have not yet decided how
> many disks I will use in the array, if that influences the alignment.)

I would suggest not using more than 10-11 disks in a single raid group 
or the rebuild times get hellaciously long (11 x 3TB SAS2 RAID6 took 12 
hours to rebuild when I ran tests).    if this is for nearline bulk 
storage, I'd use 2 disks as hot spares, and have 2 seperate RAID5 or 6 
of 11 disks, then stripe those together so its raid 5+0 or 6+0.   if 
this is for higher performance storage, I would build mirrors and stripe 
them (raid 1+0)

re: alignment, use the whole disks, without partitioning.   then there's 
no alignment issues.   use a raid block size of like 32k. if you need 
multiple file systems, put the whole mess into a single LVM vg, and 
create your logical volumes in lvm.




-- 
john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast

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