Re: Creating a Partition for RAID Arrays
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:52 PM Justin Noor wrote: > We need to create a partition on an OpenBSD server for the sole purpose of > mounting RAID arrays. > > The mount point would be something like: > > /data > > Then we will create directories in that partition and mount the arrays: > > /data/raid1 > /data/raid2 > /data/raid3 > If you are mounting the arrays over the network via NFS or iSCSI then you don't need to make /data its own partition. Just make a folder in the root directory, and create the desired sub-folders within. When the RAID array isn't mounted, the directory will be empty, consuming no space. When the RAID array gets mounted, the space will come from the RAID array itself. If the arrays are local (RAID controller installed in this server) then you will create the partitions *on* the RAID arrays after you create them. Each RAID array will appear to OpenBSD as a separate disk, needing its own partition table. -ken
Re: Creating a Partition for RAID Arrays
On Sep 16 20:30:45, justinnoor...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Misc, > > We need to create a partition on an OpenBSD server for the sole purpose of > mounting RAID arrays. > > The mount point would be something like: > > /data > > Then we will create directories in that partition and mount the arrays: > > /data/raid1 > /data/raid2 > /data/raid3 > > > How big should this partition be? At least one byte for every byte you want to store.
Re: Creating a Partition for RAID Arrays
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:51 PM Justin Noor wrote: > > Hello Misc, > Hi! > We need to create a partition on an OpenBSD server for the sole purpose of > mounting RAID arrays. > > [LE SNIP] > How big should this partition be? As big as you need to store any actual data. If you're not storing anything on it, there's no reason to have one at all, just create the directory in your root filesystem. Is there a reason you can't just do that? -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
Creating a Partition for RAID Arrays
Hello Misc, We need to create a partition on an OpenBSD server for the sole purpose of mounting RAID arrays. The mount point would be something like: /data Then we will create directories in that partition and mount the arrays: /data/raid1 /data/raid2 /data/raid3 How big should this partition be?
