New HP server came with 4 SCSI HD, need to use it for email server. Replace old Intel Pre Server host around 3000 email account.
I’ve been playing around with gconcat for ftp server, now wanna try gstripe 🙂
jedimaster# gstripe label -v email /dev/da1s1d /dev/da2s1d /dev/da3s1d
Metadata value stored on /dev/da1s1d.
Metadata value stored on /dev/da2s1d.
Metadata value stored on /dev/da3s1d.
Done.
jedimaster# newfs -U /dev/stripe/email
jedimaster# mount /dev/stripe/email /email
jedimaster# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 10G 65M 9.5G 1% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
/dev/da0s1d 52G 905M 47G 2% /home
/dev/da0s1e 16G 3.9G 10G 27% /usr
/dev/da0s1f 62G 20M 57G 0% /var
/dev/stripe/email 427G 4.1k 392G 0% /email
editing /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0s1d /home ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0s1e /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0s1f /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/stripe/email /email ufs rw 2 2
jedimaster# echo ‘geom_stripe_load="YES"’ >> /boot/loader.conf
testing ::
jedimaster# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/email/test.img bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 21.451587 secs (50054191 bytes/sec)
0.000u 2.677s 0:21.46 12.4% 21+2974k 33+8192io 0pf+0w
hmmm….
is it scsi thing or I left something?
Links :
Interesting to see ZFS in action, I’ll try it too.