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huuan Apprentice
Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 265 Location: California
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: poweredge 840 RAID1 SAS5iR controller [solved] |
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I'm about to install gentoo hardened on a Dell Poweredge 840 with a SAS5iR hardware RAID controller set for RAID1 with 2x80 G SATA hdd
Does gentoo support hardware RAID controllers like this?
Johnny
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Navisence n00b
Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Belgium, Merelbeke
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: Re: poweredge 840 RAID1 SAS5iR controller |
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huuan wrote: | I'm about to install gentoo hardened on a Dell Poweredge 840 with a SAS5iR hardware RAID controller set for RAID1 with 2x80 G SATA hdd
Does gentoo support hardware RAID controllers like this?
Johnny |
I think it's more a question if the kernel is supporting the SAS 5iR controller. According to http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-October/070929.html, it seems to do so through the megaraid_sas driver. I'm quoting from a 2.6.17 kernel here:
Code: | Symbol: MEGARAID_SAS [=n]
LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS RAID Module
Defined at drivers/scsi/megaraid/Kconfig.megaraid:78
Depends on: PCI && SCSI
Location:
-> Device Drivers
-> SCSI device support
-> SCSI device support (SCSI [=y])
-> SCSI low-level drivers |
Anyway, I'm interested to hear from you if you tried this and if it worked out... |
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Navisence n00b
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Ok, thanks for the reference to the correct driver. I'm looking into buying a PE860 within a couple of days and I want to make sure the hardware is supported in the kernel.
About the 5iR RAID1 with 2 SATA drives, I just found this thread on the Dell forums: http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_hardrive&thread.id=24696&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs.
It's about performance loss when writing to the mirrored SATA disks due to the disk write cache being disabled in this kind of setup. Could you or anyone else comment on this? Any experiences or is it rather unimportant when you're mostly serving a relatively small website? |
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huuan Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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I just found that iozone is in portage so I'll test the controller + drives if you like. Any specific test you'd like run? |
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Navisence n00b
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Seems to be a great tool to test these things! Didn't know it before.
Because of the issue covered on the DELL forums, I'm mostly interested in the write performance. I'm wondering how this looks without the write caches on the SAS 5iR controller.
The server has been ordered and I expect this not to be too big of an issue for the intended application. I hope to be able to test things in 2 weeks myself. |
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