Hardware List
- Servers (2): Dell r410, 2xIntel E5620, 8Gb RAM (warranty, 2013)
- Raid card (2): LSI 9280
- Hard Drives (50): Western Digital 2TB WDCWD2003FYYS0
- JBOD Chassis (4): AIC XJ-SA13-212R-B, 12-bay, sas
Raid Configuration
- One drive group per chassis
- 1 spare per chassis
- Two virtual drives per drive group (8.18T & 8.19T)
- stripe size: 512k
- write policy: write back w/ BBU
- read policy: Always read ahead
OS/LVM and Formatting
- OS: RHEL5, x86_64
- LVM is block aligned on 512k blocks
- xfs filesystem
- 4 volume groups, one for each virtual drive
[root@naraapp17 export]# pvcreate --dataalignment 512k /dev/sdb
Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 export]# pvcreate --dataalignment 512k /dev/sdc
Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 export]# pvcreate --dataalignment 512k /dev/sdd
Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 export]# pvcreate --dataalignment 512k /dev/sde
Physical volume "/dev/sde" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 export]# pvs -o+pe_start
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree 1st PE
/dev/sda2 vol00 lvm2 a- 136.62G 0 192.00K
/dev/sdb lvm2 -- 8.18T 8.18T 512.00K
/dev/sdc lvm2 -- 8.19T 8.19T 512.00K
/dev/sdd lvm2 -- 8.18T 8.18T 512.00K
/dev/sde lvm2 -- 8.19T 8.19T 512.00K
[root@naraapp17 ~]# vgcreate group0-1 /dev/sdb
Volume group "group0-1" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# vgcreate group0-2 /dev/sdc
Volume group "group0-2" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# vgcreate group1-1 /dev/sdd
Volume group "group1-1" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# vgcreate group1-2 /dev/sde
Volume group "group1-2" successfully created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# lvcreate -n vault0-1 -l100%VG group0-1
Logical volume "vault0-1" created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# lvcreate -n vault1-1 -l100%VG group1-1
Logical volume "vault1-1" created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# lvcreate -n vault0-2 -l100%VG group0-2
Logical volume "vault0-2" created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# lvcreate -n vault1-2 -l100%VG group1-2
Logical volume "vault1-2" created
[root@naraapp17 ~]# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
vault0-1 group0-1 -wi-a- 8.18T
vault0-2 group0-2 -wi-a- 8.19T
vault1-1 group1-1 -wi-a- 8.18T
vault1-2 group1-2 -wi-a- 8.19T
cache vol00 -wi-ao 1.00G
rootfs vol00 -wi-ao 19.53G
scratch0 vol00 -wi-ao 99.44G
swap vol00 -wi-ao 2.00G
tmp vol00 -wi-ao 14.66G
[root@naraapp17 ~]# mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=9 /dev/group0-1/vault0-1
meta-data=/dev/group0-1/vault0-1 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=68618752 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=2195800064, imaxpct=25
= sunit=128 swidth=1152 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
[root@naraapp17 ~]# mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=9 /dev/group0-2/vault0-2
meta-data=/dev/group0-2/vault0-2 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=68699648 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=2198386688, imaxpct=25
= sunit=128 swidth=1152 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
[root@naraapp17 ~]# mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=9 /dev/group1-2/vault1-2
meta-data=/dev/group1-2/vault1-2 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=68699648 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=2198386688, imaxpct=25
= sunit=128 swidth=1152 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
[root@naraapp17 ~]# mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=9 /dev/group1-1/vault1-1
meta-data=/dev/group1-1/vault1-1 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=68618752 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=0
data = bsize=4096 blocks=2195800064, imaxpct=25
= sunit=128 swidth=1152 blks, unwritten=1
naming =version 2 bsize=4096
log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
## In /etc/fstab
/dev/group0-1/vault0-1 /export/vault0-1 xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/group0-2/vault0-2 /export/vault0-2 xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/group1-1/vault1-1 /export/vault1-1 xfs defaults 1 2
/dev/group1-2/vault1-2 /export/vault1-2 xfs defaults 1 2
##
[root@naraapp17 ~]# df -h /export/*
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/group0--1-vault0--1
8.2T 5.1M 8.2T 1% /export/vault0-1
/dev/mapper/group0--2-vault0--2
8.2T 5.1M 8.2T 1% /export/vault0-2
/dev/mapper/group1--1-vault1--1
8.2T 5.1M 8.2T 1% /export/vault1-1
/dev/mapper/group1--2-vault1--2
8.2T 5.1M 8.2T 1% /export/vault1-2
Irods Config
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iCAT host 'chron-icat.umiacs.umd.edu'
directory '/export/homes/mcat/iRODS'
port '1247'
start svrPort '20200'
end svrPort '20399'
account 'rods'
password '*******'
zone 'chron-umiacs'
db name 'ICAT'
scramble key '123'
resource name 'chron-rsrc4-small'
resource dir '/export/homes/mcat/iRODS/Vault'
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