Hi,
I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk
installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I
don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions.
I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server.
I understand RAID isn't supported on the boot device. Am I forced to
install the boot loader on only one disk? What if that one disk
becomes inaccessible?
If I have one partition on one disk that isn't part of a RAID volume,
it's really going to make partitioning and general disk setup much
more difficult, because all other partitions on all other disks will
be part of a RAID5 volume.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
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08-09-2011, 02:21 AM
Craig White
Install questions with RAID
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:49 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk
> installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I
> don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions.
> I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server.
>
> I understand RAID isn't supported on the boot device. Am I forced to
> install the boot loader on only one disk? What if that one disk
> becomes inaccessible?
>
> If I have one partition on one disk that isn't part of a RAID volume,
> it's really going to make partitioning and general disk setup much
> more difficult, because all other partitions on all other disks will
> be part of a RAID5 volume.
----
I guess grub still can't boot from an md filesystem. Make a 500M
partition on each of the 4 drives as the first thing you do. Put /boot
on /dev/sda and leave the others blank/unused. Make the rest of your
partitions into your RAID 5 and your set. After everything is installed
and working,
mount /dev/sdc1 /boot
rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2
umount /boot2
mount /dev/sdd1 /boot
rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2
umount /boot2
This way, if /dev/sda takes a dump, you'll have to boot a rescue disk,
chroot to /mnt/sysimage and 'grub-install /dev/sda' (because when you
remove /dev/sda, another will take it's place). But that's not very
difficult.
Suggest that you do RAID 0 + 1 or RAID 6 (if that's possible in
Anaconda). Big hard drives are cheap these days, RAID 0 + 1 gives you
speed and reliability. If speed and reliability are not your thing, then
RAID 6 is a much better choice than RAID 5.
Craig
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08-09-2011, 02:30 AM
Craig White
Install questions with RAID
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 19:21 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:49 -0400, Alex wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk
> > installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I
> > don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions.
> > I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server.
> >
> > I understand RAID isn't supported on the boot device. Am I forced to
> > install the boot loader on only one disk? What if that one disk
> > becomes inaccessible?
> >
> > If I have one partition on one disk that isn't part of a RAID volume,
> > it's really going to make partitioning and general disk setup much
> > more difficult, because all other partitions on all other disks will
> > be part of a RAID5 volume.
> ----
> I guess grub still can't boot from an md filesystem. Make a 500M
> partition on each of the 4 drives as the first thing you do. Put /boot
> on /dev/sda and leave the others blank/unused. Make the rest of your
> partitions into your RAID 5 and your set. After everything is installed
> and working,
>
> (as root)
> mkdir /boot2
> mount /dev/sdb1 /boot
> rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2
> umount /boot2
>
> mount /dev/sdc1 /boot
> rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2
> umount /boot2
>
> mount /dev/sdd1 /boot
> rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2
> umount /boot2
----
typed too fast and now proofed... corrections
mount /dev/sdc1 /boot2
rsync -rvup --delete-after /boot/* /boot2
umount /boot2
mount /dev/sdd1 /boot2
rsync -rvup --delete-after /boot/* /boot2
umount /boot2
do this once in a while - probably after new kernels are installed and
you are set for a disaster
Craig
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08-09-2011, 06:39 AM
Gilboa Davara
Install questions with RAID
Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device.
Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX GB raid autodetect.
Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device containing /boot and use the second partition on each drive to create the raid 5 device.
If the first drive dies, at most you will have use grub to rebuild the MBR on the new first drive.
- Gilboa
On Aug 9, 2011 5:23 AM, "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
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08-09-2011, 02:50 PM
Alex
Install questions with RAID
Hi,
> Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device.
> Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX
> GB raid autodetect.
> Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device
> containing /boot and use the second partition on each drive to create the
> raid 5 device.
>
> If the first drive dies, at most you will have use grub to rebuild the MBR
> on the new first drive.
Yes, but I also meant to point out that I've since learned that the
upgrade doesn't support it, as I found out when I tried to upgrade a
system from fc14 to fc15.
Thanks for all your help.
Thanks,
Alex
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08-09-2011, 02:53 PM
Reindl Harald
Install questions with RAID
Am 09.08.2011 16:50, schrieb Alex:
> Hi,
>
>> Grub can boot from md device as long as it's a raid 1 device.
>> Simply create two partitions on each drive: a 500 MB md autodetect and a XXX
>> GB raid autodetect.
>> Use the first partition on each drive to create a 500 MB raid 1 device
>> containing /boot and use the second partition on each drive to create the
>> raid 5 device.
>>
>> If the first drive dies, at most you will have use grub to rebuild the MBR
>> on the new first drive.
> Yes, but I also meant to point out that I've since learned that the
> upgrade doesn't support it, as I found out when I tried to upgrade a
> system from fc14 to fc15
which upgrade-method?
i upgraded the following setup from F14 to F15 with YUM
where should there be a problem? the upgrade does not
know anything about the md-devices
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
511988 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU]
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