SDS/SVM Mirror and soft partitions policies

From: Jérôme Fenal (jerome.fenal@cmg.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 12:22:58 EDT


Hello all,

first, sorry for the disclaimer, but I can't remove it.
It's been a long a time I haven't posted here, so again, please excuse my
[raw|crude] english.

My needs : I have dual busses D2's on servers, and need to make mirrors on
them, using SDS/SVM. Disks on busses will be exactly symetric from one bus
to the other, and containing only mirrors.

I plan on using soft partitions (actually, I already do) but have a "policy"
question :
should I :

- make huge mirrors (eg. make slices with all the disk space, then
metadevice, then mirrors between two metadevices), then slicing these huge
mirrors into soft partitions

              my file-systems
                     |||
               soft partitions
                     \|/
                 1 huge mirror
          ____________|___________
         / \
   1 concat/stripe 1 concat/stripe
         | |
   1 huge_slice 1 huge_slice

or

- make as many soft partitions on the disks as mirrors (eg. sort of
"encapsulating" with metainit -p -e), then create as many mirrors (using
twice as many concats based on these soft parts) for my file-systems

               my file-systems
                     |||
                   mirrors
          ___________+++__________
         /// \\\
    concat/stripes concat/stripes
         ||| |||
      soft parts. soft parts.
         \|/ \|/
    huge_slice huge_slice (with metainit -pe)

Has anybody has hints on what could be better, regarding :
- availability (consequences if a disk fail on either situation)
- performance (many meta devices vs. a bit less meta devices)
- etc.

Thanks for your answers, I'll summarize.

Regards,

Jirtme

--
Jirtme Fenal - Consultant Unix/SAN/Logiciel Libre
Groupe Expert & Managed Services - CMG France
mailto:jerome.fenal@cmg.com
+33 1 55 20 50 08
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