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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Is overlapping two RAID5 arrays on same drives a bad idea ?? Post 302527696 by Saed on Saturday 4th of June 2011 03:22:09 PM
Old 06-04-2011
you`re right mark they`re SATA drives ,
although i thought that the performance would be an issue here, i needed a spot light on it , but unfortunately i`m compelled to make use of those 4 disks with a RAID-5 implementation to get advantage from space / Write speed , can u imagine a better partiotionnig theme , considering that i`ll be in need for a ,
1) /boot on RAID-1
2) one big resilient LV /backup to hold the backed up Data across the network.
its a Power-Edge-T110 with 4 SATA controllers ,
-4 HDD, 1x500GB , 3x1TB ??
-CentOS 5.6(Final) x86_64 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen installed ,holding Amanda as a centred backup Server

thanks again Mark , i do appreciate it ..

Last edited by Saed; 06-04-2011 at 04:35 PM..
 

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TWS(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    TWS(4)

NAME
tws -- 3ware 9750 SATA+SAS 6Gb/s RAID controller card driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device scbus device tws Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): tws_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The tws driver provides support for LSI's 3ware 9750 SATA+SAS 6Gb/s RAID controller cards. These controllers feature the LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) and are available in 4- and 8-port configurations, supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and single disk, with 96 SATA and/or SAS hard drives and SSDs. For further hardware information, see http://www.lsi.com/. HARDWARE
The tws driver supports the following SATA/SAS RAID controller: o LSI's 3ware SAS 9750 series LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt before booting the kernel or stored in loader.conf(5). hw.tws.cam_depth The maximum queued CAM SIM requests for one controller. The default value is 256. hw.tws.enable_msi This tunable enables MSI support on the controller if set to a non-zero value. The default value is 0. hw.tws.queue_depth The maximum queued requests for one controller. hw.tws.use_32bit_sgls Limit the driver to use only 32-bit SG elements regardless whether the operating system is running in 64-bit mode. The default value is 0. FILES
/dev/da? array/logical disk interface /dev/tws? management interface DIAGNOSTICS
Whenever the driver encounters a command failure, it prints out an error code in the format: "ERROR: (<error source>: <error code>):", fol- lowed by a text description of the error. There are other error messages and warnings that the driver prints out, depending on the kinds of errors that it encounters. If the driver is compiled with TWS_DEBUG defined, it prints out a whole bunch of debug messages. SEE ALSO
da(4), scsi(4) AUTHORS
The tws driver was written by Manjunath Ranganathaiah for LSI and this manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> for iXsystems, Inc. BSD
October 4, 2011 BSD
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