From: Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
To: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: raid 10 su, sw settings
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:54:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199141644.3437.24.camel@up> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071231214223.GB3679@teal.hq.k1024.org>
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 22:42 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:55:01PM -0500, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> > Any opinions on the partition layout? Did you go to special effort to
> > layout your partitions on the stripe boundaries (actually i don't really
> > understand this fully yet).
>
> So instead of the usual 255 heads, 63 cylinders fake geometry that is
> not a multiple of anything, I setup 16h/16c geometry that gives a nice
> power-of-two multiplier so all partitions *should* be aligned at a nice
> multiple of any size you choose; fdisk -l on the drive reports units of
> 128k.
Sorry to be thick... i don't understand this.
Do you configure the raid controller with these settings? or is this an
fdisk option?
thanks!
brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-31 0:00 raid 10 su, sw settings Brad Langhorst
2007-12-31 17:04 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-31 18:43 ` Brad Langhorst
2007-12-31 19:07 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-31 20:17 ` Iustin Pop
2007-12-31 20:55 ` Brad Langhorst
2007-12-31 21:42 ` Iustin Pop
2007-12-31 22:54 ` Brad Langhorst [this message]
2008-01-01 0:15 ` Iustin Pop
2007-12-31 18:53 ` pg_mh, Peter Grandi
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