2016-03-05 0:01 GMT+08:00 Freddie Cash <[email protected]>: > On Mar 4, 2016 2:05 AM, "Fred Liu" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2016-03-04 13:47 GMT+08:00 Freddie Cash <[email protected]>: > >> > >> Currently, I just use a simple coordinate system. Columns are letters, > rows are numbers. > >> "[email protected]" <[email protected] > >、 > > developer <[email protected]>、 > > illumos-developer <[email protected]>、 > > omnios-discuss <[email protected]>、 > > Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]>、 > > illumos-zfs <[email protected]>、 > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>、 > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>、 > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > >> Each disk is partitioned using GPT with the first (only) partition > starting at 1 MB and covering the whole disk, and labelled with the > column/row where it is located (disk-a1, disk-g6, disk-p3, etc). > > > > [Fred]: So you manually pull off all the drives one by one to locate > them? > > When putting the system together for the first time, I insert each disk > one at a time, wait for it to be detected, partition it, then label it > based on physical location. Then do the next one. It's just part of the > normal server build process, whether it has 2 drives, 20 drives, or 200 > drives. > > We build all our own servers from off-the-shelf parts; we don't buy > anything pre-built from any of the large OEMs. >
[Fred]: Gotcha! > >> The pool is created using the GPT labels, so the label shows in "zpool > list" output. > > > > [Fred]: What will the output look like? > > From our smaller backups server, with just 24 drive bays: > > $ zpool status storage > > pool: storage > > state: ONLINE > > status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can > > still be used, but some features are unavailable. > > action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, > > the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support > > the features. See zpool-features(7) for details. > > scan: scrub canceled on Wed Feb 17 12:02:20 2016 > > config: > > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > > storage ONLINE 0 0 0 > > raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-a6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > raidz2-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-b6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > raidz2-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-c6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > raidz2-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/disk-d6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > cache > > gpt/cache0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > gpt/cache1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > > errors: No known data errors > > The 90-bay systems look the same, just that the letters go all the way to > p (so disk-p1 through disk-p6). And there's one vdev that uses 3 drives > from each chassis (7x 6-disk vdev only uses 42 drives of the 45-bay > chassis, so there's lots of spares if using a single chassis; using two > chassis, there's enough drives to add an extra 6-disk vdev). > [Fred]: It looks like the gpt label shown in "zpool status" only works in FreeBSD/FreeNAS. Are you using FreeBSD/FreeNAS? I can't find the similar possibilities in Illumos/Linux. Thanks, Fred > > *illumos-zfs* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182191/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182191/22147814-d504851f> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
