[Beowulf] Beowulf Storage Node
Joe Landman
landman at scalableinformatics.com
Tue Apr 14 07:22:19 PDT 2009
David N. Lombard wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:53:09AM -0700, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Залетнев Дмитрий wrote:
>>
>>> I have a motherboard with 4x SATAII-ports and without RAID. If I'll
>>> connect to these ports 4 identical SATAII 250 GB 7200 rpm HDDs and
>>> install Linux, is it possible to have software RAID 0 using Linux?
>> Sure it is. The only issue you may run into is that the partition
>> containing /boot can't be on software RAID, grub & lilo don't know how to
>> deal with RAID partitions.
>
> That's not /completely/ true:
>
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/md2 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> /dev/md0 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> $
>
> But, the point well taken in the general RAID case...
/boot can be on RAID0 or RAID1 without a problem. Higher raids are harder.
root at dualcore:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md4 : active raid1 sdc[0] sdd[1]
732574464 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md3 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1]
418910784 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
67111424 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
264960 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
root at dualcore:~# mount | grep md.
/dev/md2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/md4 on /big type xfs (rw,noatime)
/dev/md1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)
/dev/md3 on /data type xfs (rw,noatime)
Here /, /boot, and other important mounts are set up as software RAID1.
Works just fine, and out of the box.
root at dualcore:~# uname -r
2.6.27-11-server
>
> Also, you clearly don't want *anything* but files that you don't care about
> losing on RAID-0. If all of your disks are in a RAID-0, booting is only the
> first problem needing a solution.
>
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