Re: Softraid activation on OpenBSD 4.4
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Christophe Rioux wrote: Hi I follow my mail from september were I tried to install the soft raid on OpenBSD 4.3. As we saw, this couldn't work. Do not mix up softraid with RaidFrame. You use RaidFrame (raidctl below). softraid use bioctl. They are competing products. I redone the procedure with the new released version, and it seems to be better: Extraction of dmesg: softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b raid0: Component /dev/wd0d being configured at row: 0 col: 0 Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0: Component /dev/wd1d being configured at row: 0 col: 1 Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0 at root The last question I have is: it seems that I actually boot on wd0a, which is not a RAID disk. How can I boot on raid0a ? It seems the raid autoconfig does not work. What does raidctl -vs raid0 say? An example from an older release: raid0 Components: /dev/wd0d: optimal /dev/wd1d: optimal No spares. Component label for /dev/wd0d: Row: 0, Column: 0, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 2007050900, Mod Counter: 219 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 153150336 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Component label for /dev/wd1d: Row: 0, Column: 1, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 2007050900, Mod Counter: 219 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 153150336 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Parity status: clean Reconstruction is 100% complete. Parity Re-write is 100% complete. Copyback is 100% complete. Note Autoconfig: Yes and Root Partition: Yes. Did you build your kernel with RAID autoconfig support? I made a test: creating a file after booting on hd0a, and this file doesn't exist in hd1a. The commands I done to build the raid: raidctl -C /etc/raid0.conf raid0 raidctl -I 100 raid0 raidctl -iv raid0 disklabel -E raid0 newfs /dev/rraid0a newfs /dev/rraid0d mount /dev/raid0a /mnt cd /mnt dump -0f - / | restore -rf - raidctl -A yes raid0 raidctl -A root raid0 echo /dev/raid0a / ffs rw 1 1 /mnt/etc/fstab echo /dev/raid0b none swap sw 0 0 /mnt/etc/fstab echo /dev/raid0d /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 /mnt/etc/fstab umount /mnt Reboot Thanks for the reply Regards -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: Softraid activation on OpenBSD 4.4
I redone the procedure with the new released version, and it seems to be better: Extraction of dmesg: softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b raid0: Component /dev/wd0d being configured at row: 0 col: 0 Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0: Component /dev/wd1d being configured at row: 0 col: 1 Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0 at root The last question I have is: it seems that I actually boot on wd0a, which is not a RAID disk. How can I boot on raid0a ? It seems the raid autoconfig does not work. What does raidctl -vs raid0 say? = same as your result raid0 Components: /dev/wd0d: optimal /dev/wd1d: optimal No spares. Component label for /dev/wd0d: Row: 0, Column: 0, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 100, Mod Counter: 143 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 17799936 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Component label for /dev/wd1d: Row: 0, Column: 1, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 100, Mod Counter: 143 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 17799936 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Parity status: clean Reconstruction is 100% complete. Parity Re-write is 100% complete. Copyback is 100% complete. Did you build your kernel with RAID autoconfig support? I build the kernel with following options: option RAID_AUTOCONFIG pseudo-device raid 4 And my /etc/raid0.conf: START array 1 2 0 START disks /dev/wd0d /dev/wd1d START layout 128 1 1 1 START queue fifo 100 The creation of the RAID: raidctl -C /etc/raid0.conf raid0 raidctl -I 100 raid0 raidctl -iv raid0
Re: : Softraid activation on OpenBSD 4.4
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:30:58PM +0100, Christophe Rioux wrote: I redone the procedure with the new released version, and it seems to be better: Extraction of dmesg: softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b raid0: Component /dev/wd0d being configured at row: 0 col: 0 Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0: Component /dev/wd1d being configured at row: 0 col: 1 Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2 Version: 2 Serial Number: 100 Mod Counter: 128 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid0 at root The last question I have is: it seems that I actually boot on wd0a, which is not a RAID disk. How can I boot on raid0a ? It seems the raid autoconfig does not work. What does raidctl -vs raid0 say? = same as your result raid0 Components: /dev/wd0d: optimal /dev/wd1d: optimal No spares. Component label for /dev/wd0d: Row: 0, Column: 0, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 100, Mod Counter: 143 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 17799936 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Component label for /dev/wd1d: Row: 0, Column: 1, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2 Version: 2, Serial Number: 100, Mod Counter: 143 Clean: No, Status: 0 sectPerSU: 128, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1 Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 17799936 RAID Level: 1 Autoconfig: Yes Root partition: Yes Last configured as: raid0 Parity status: clean Reconstruction is 100% complete. Parity Re-write is 100% complete. Copyback is 100% complete. Did you build your kernel with RAID autoconfig support? I build the kernel with following options: option RAID_AUTOCONFIG pseudo-device raid 4 And my /etc/raid0.conf: START array 1 2 0 START disks /dev/wd0d /dev/wd1d START layout 128 1 1 1 START queue fifo 100 The creation of the RAID: raidctl -C /etc/raid0.conf raid0 raidctl -I 100 raid0 raidctl -iv raid0 Have you tried boot -a to see if you can select raid0a? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=122153087119929w=2 If that works it seems raidframe root disk is still not operational. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=120855938821758w=2 Note that you can still create a setup that does not raid the root disk, just all others. And then use the /altroot backup for the root disk, preferably /altroot on wd1a. Raided root disk might be regarded as a doubtful feature anyway since the kernel will be loaded from wd0 anyway, and if it dies you need a bootable wd1. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
Re: : Softraid activation on OpenBSD 4.4
Note that you can still create a setup that does not raid the root disk, just all others. And then use the /altroot backup for the root disk, preferably /altroot on wd1a. Raided root disk might be regarded as a doubtful feature anyway since the kernel will be loaded from wd0 anyway, and if it dies you need a bootable wd1. Nice information. I know what I'll do: * wd0a wd1a: OpenBSD 4.4 * raid0a: mount point /etc * raid0d: mount point /home * raid0e: mount point /usr * raid0f: mount point /root * raid0g: mount point /var = so I can start on both wd0a and wd1a and after booting my mount points are on the raid disk. Thanks for the information and idea
Re: : Softraid activation on OpenBSD 4.4
On 2008-11-05, Christophe Rioux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that you can still create a setup that does not raid the root disk, just all others. And then use the /altroot backup for the root disk, preferably /altroot on wd1a. Raided root disk might be regarded as a doubtful feature anyway since the kernel will be loaded from wd0 anyway, and if it dies you need a bootable wd1. Nice information. I know what I'll do: * wd0a wd1a: OpenBSD 4.4 * raid0a: mount point /etc /etc lives on the root filesystem.
