Re: raid 10 su, sw settings

Brad Langhorst
2007-12-31T22:54:03Z

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