Hi guys i have a server with two 500gb hdd (enterprise sata 7200rpm) It's a dell R210 II Server, intel e3 1220v2 processor There's no raid card just mainboard, disk, ram memory (8gb) and four network interfaces (internet and bond of local network) I will use it as a server (mariadb,php,apache) with slackware linux and kernel 3.9.10, mariadb with aria storage. I think kernel 3.10.2 isn't nice yet to work with raid1, it have some bugs, right? Well the system setup... I want 4 partitions in each disk /boot with 200mb, xfs filesystem and raid1 swap with 20gb (or 10gb), / with 100gb, xfs filesystem and raid1 /home with all disk left (near to 400gb), xfs filesystem and raid1 No lvm, i will not expand filesystem, just replace disk when it crash (maybe next 4 to 5 years), i will not expand hardware, just replace when crashed too (network card, memory, cpu, etc) After 5 year i think that will have ~100GB in /home or less I tested this system in raid1, raid10, raid5 and raid6, with last archlinux, the best performace was raid1 There's many non sequencial writes, with many thread reading/writing to disk, that's the main reason that i think raid1 worked better Now the point is, what's the best fdisk, mdadm, mkfs_xfs, tunefs, smartctl and others tune tools and /sys /proc parameters? I want a good align and performace What more information should i share? Thanks guys -- Roberto Spadim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
