On 21/02/2010 20:56, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: >
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm
looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Give
On 20/02/2010 01:00, Jake Anderson wrote:
Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm
looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
busy machine (mail ser
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: >
> Greetings
>
> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm
> looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
>
> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a
> fairly busy machine
>
>From: David Kempe
>To: Brett Coady
>Cc: "slug@slug.org.au"
>Sent: Sat, 20 February, 2010 12:20:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM
>
>
>
>
>On 20/02/2010, at 11:53 AM, Brett Coady wrote:
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>>>
>>The trouble with Bonnie
On 20/02/2010, at 11:53 AM, Brett Coady wrote:
The trouble with Bonnie and IOzone is that they test the
filesystem , for my example I was looking at the raw disk speed for
raid results.
Well if you keep the kernel and filesystem identical between runs you
end up benchmarking the h
- Original Message
> From: Dave Kempe
> To: Brett Coady
> Cc: slug@slug.org.au
> Sent: Sat, 20 February, 2010 8:10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM
>
> - "Brett Coady" wrote:
> >
> > These read-times were all done with: hdpa
Brett Coady writes:
[I *hope* I got the citations right here; for some reason your email didn't
include any of the normal bits in text you cited. :/ ]
> From: "Tony Sceats"
> To: slug@slug.org.au
>
>> Slower, though ... is a bit of a strange claim. Not because it is false,
>> but because th
- "Brett Coady" wrote:
>
> These read-times were all done with: hdparm -tT /dev/(device)
> Anyone know a good non destructive write test for benchmarking HDD ?
>
> Hope this helps
> Brett
Bonnie++ is what we use. You can use IOzone if you like complex charts. hdparm
isn't great for this so
From:
"Tony Sceats"
To:
slug@slug.org.au
>
> Slower, though ... is a bit of a strange claim. Not because it is false,
> but
> because t
On Friday 19 February 2010 19:29:48 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking
> >> for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
> >>
> >> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
> >> busy ma
Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm
looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve:
1
Tony Sceats writes:
>> Slower, though ... is a bit of a strange claim. Not because it is false,
>> but because the answer is complex: you can, for example, double read speed
>> and halve write speed, using a two disk RAID 1 array ... in the ideal case.
>
> I must say I'm curious about this, beca
>
> Slower, though ... is a bit of a strange claim. Not because it is false,
> but
> because the answer is complex: you can, for example, double read speed and
> halve write speed, using a two disk RAID 1 array ... in the ideal case.
>
I must say I'm curious about this, because I have always assu
james writes:
> On Friday 19 February 2010 05:37:31 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
>
>> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking
>> for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
>>
>> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
>
On Friday 19 February 2010 05:37:31 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking
> for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
>
> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
> busy machine (mail se
On 18/02/2010 16:45, Paul De Audney wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Nigel Allen wrote:
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for
suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Nigel Allen wrote:
> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for
> suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
>
> Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy
> machine (mail server for 40+
> "Dean" == Dean Hamstead writes:
Dean> Regardless of the method used, with two drives you either get
Dean> speed or reliability, you dont get both.
Dean> You either mirror (reliability) or stripe (speed).
Actually, mirroring should improve speed for reads, because you can
read from the dis
> "Nigel" == Nigel Allen writes:
Nigel> Greetings
Nigel> I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and
Nigel> I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition
Nigel> them.
How much space do you need? For reliability and performance, straight
mirroring is a good be
Regardless of the method used, with two drives you either get speed or
reliability, you dont get both.
You either mirror (reliability) or stripe (speed).
Dean
Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking
for suggestions as to the
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking
for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve:
1) Speed
2) Reliabili
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