Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:33 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: I just tried a bunch of combinations on a 3 x 11 raid60 configuration plus 3 global hotspares, and decided that letting the controller (LSI 9260-8i MegaSAS2) do it was easier all the way around. of course, with other

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/04/2012 11:39 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm happily running moosefs (packages available in rpmforge repo) for a year and a half, 120TB, soon 200. So easy to setup and grow it's indecent :) Laurent.

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 04/02/2012 18:39, Boris Epstein a écrit : Hello Laurent, Thanks! Very useful info, I never even heard of MooseFS and it sounds very nice. One question: what happens if you lose your master server in their designation? Or is it possible

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are themselves treated as single drives to be combined into a single RAID 1. Phil

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/05/2012 04:37 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffnerphilip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/05/12 2:42 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: What you are saying seems to make sense actually. I wonder how much a RAID6 with a few spares would make sense. If we are talking a large number of disks then RAID 6 + 2 spares means overpaying only for 5 disks. Not a lot if the total number of them

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: What you are saying seems to make sense actually. I wonder how much a RAID6 with a few spares would make sense. If we are talking a large number of disks then RAID 6 + 2 spares means overpaying only for 5 disks. Not a lot

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/05/12 3:24 PM, Ross Walker wrote: It might be easier to do the striping in software cause that's a zero over-head operation and it makes the hardware RAID easier to setup, maintain and can make rebuilds less painful depending on the controller. I just tried a bunch of combinations on a

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/06/2012 12:33 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 02/05/12 3:24 PM, Ross Walker wrote: It might be easier to do the striping in software cause that's a zero over-head operation and it makes the hardware RAID easier to setup, maintain and can make rebuilds less painful depending on the

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/05/12 3:49 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: What about Software RAID 10 (far)? It gives 2 x read speed and 1 x write speed (speed of single HDD). we use raid10 for all our database servers. often as many as 20 disks in a single raid set. -- john r pierceN

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread nux
Boris Epstein writes: Hello listmates, This is not specifically CentOS-related - though I will probably execute this design on CentOS if I decide to do so. It will certainly be some kind of Linux. At any rate, here's my situation. I would like to build a fairly large storage solution

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
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Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello Boris, I'm in a similar search for a scalable and resilient solution. So far I like glusterfs, relatively easy to setup, no meta-server required, decent performance, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Been playing with their latest beta release in a raid0+1 setup; haven't managed

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm happily running moosefs (packages available in rpmforge repo) for a year and a half, 120TB, soon 200. So easy to setup and grow it's indecent :) Laurent.

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread nux
Boris Epstein writes: Hello Boris, I'm in a similar search for a scalable and resilient solution. So far I like glusterfs, relatively easy to setup, no meta-server required, decent performance, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Been playing with their latest beta release in a raid0+1