like this? http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi/browse_thread/thread/4caaf406fe8165ab/f021bae5e175ed59#f021bae5e175ed59
2008/12/22 Eric <ericvanblokl...@gmail.com> > > Hello, > > I'm going to setup a software raid over iSCSI. While I probably should > ask my question to the raid people, my guess was someone here might > have experience with this. > > I'm going to use the following topology: > > There will be 2 storage servers exporting targets. Other physical > machines will initiate a target from each storage server to create a > software raid (1). Virtual machines will use these raids as their > disks. > > Apart from the standard optimizations, there's one I haven't been able > to find any information on. It is suggested that initiators, using the > disks (in this case the virtualized machines) should use a head and > cylinder count that is divisable by 2. Is this suggestion correct; > does it (still) apply to iSCSI? > > Now for the actual question: I don't know exactly how linux software > raid works internally, but it sounds like logic to me, that the > software raid should be aware of the head and cylinder count as well. > > So, when creating raid partitions on the targets, I should also modify > the head and cylinder count on these. Is this a correct assumption and > will software raid use the values advertised in the partition table? > > Any answers or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Kind regards, > > Eric > > > -- Thanks & regards,|73 Yuri Huang --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
