Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi all
I'm looking at setting up software RAID 10, using CentOS 5.1 x64 - what
is the best way todo this?
I'm reading some sources on the internet, and get a lot of different
"suggestions"
1 suggestion says to boot up with a Live CD like Knoppix or
SystemRescueCD, setup the RAID 10 partitions, and then install Linux
from there.
2. Another is to setup a small RAID 1 on the first 2 HDD's, install
Linux, bootup, and then setup the rest as RAID 10
The others didn't really make sense to me, so how do I
actually do this?
And then, how do I setup the partitioning? Do I setup /boot on a
separate RAID "partition"? If so, what happens if I want to
replace the 1st 2 HDD's with bigger ones?
What's the hardware setup?
I didn't really specify any, cause I want to keep it purely software.
Generally it would be on a generic PIV motherboard with 4 / 6
SATA, or even mixed SATA & IDE HDD's - all new, so at least 80GB per HDD
I was primarily interested in the # of HDDs that can be used.
If you have 6 disks, setup 2 disks as a RAID1 for the OS and the
other 4 as a RAID10 for the data.
If you have 4 disks all together:
1) create /boot partition as a 4 disk RAID1 across all 4 disks
2) create the remaining space as 2 separate RAID1s of type LVM
3) create a VG out of the 2 RAID1 PVs, create root, swap LVs on
the VG with a stripe of 2.
LVM striping over multiple RAID1 PVs provides the same performance
as a native RAID10 array, plus you can add RAID1s later to
increase the size/performance and dump/restore the data to stripe
it across the larger set of PVs.
-Ross
_____________________________________________________________________
Thanx, this seems like a fairly easy way of doing it.
From what I gather, the data will fill up from the beginning of the
stripe, right? So the 1st 2 HDD's will work hardest in the beginning,
until there's enough data to fill the other 2 HDD's - unless of cause I
split the LV's across the PV's - i.e. put root on md1 & swap or var on
md2 for example.
Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a
performance boost?
--
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1574 - Release Date: 7/25/2008 4:27 PM
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
