Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:40:19 -0800 From: mvanloon@MindBender.serv.net To: grog@lemis.com, michaelh@cet.co.jp Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ccd and ftd Message-ID: <226EB39D3C91D111B2F900A0C9054383294C@Lobotomy.HeadCandy.com>
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You're writing a better "software-raid" driver? Here's what I want to do -- let me know if you have this in mind. I like fault-tolerance, but I don't like to take performance hits for it. I'd like to take a set of drives and mirror pairs of them. Then, I'd like to stripe on top of those mirror sets, without parity. This would give you the ultimate in performance, especially for reads, and redundant fault-tolerance, at the same time. > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] > Sent: Friday, February 13, 1998 8:58 PM > To: Michael Hancock > Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: ccd and ftd > > On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 13:38:47 +0900, Michael Hancock wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 10:19:49 +0900, Michael Hancock wrote: > >>> I'm looking for a fault tolerant solution. I know Greg is working > on a > >>> ftd driver. > >>> > >>> In the meantime I noticed that ccd supports mirroring. I'd like > to mirror > >>> two arrays of 3 to 4 disk each. How well does this work? > >> > >> Do you mean more than one mirror? I don't believe that works. > >> Certainly I can't see how it can from reading the code. > > > > The man pages says you can mirror any even number of disks. What > I'd like > > to do is this: > > > > 2940 - disk1 - disk2 - disk3 - disk4 > > > > and mirror/duplex the whole array with another identical array. > > > > 2940 - disk5 - disk6 - disk7 - disk8 > > > > Interestingly, man ccdconfig talks about CCDF_MIRROR and an > unimplemented > > flag CCDF_PARITY. > > Maybe we're talking at cross purposes here. The current version of > ccd supports two mappings: > > 1. Concatenation (in other words, making one large space out of > several smaller ones), which gives it the name. To concatenate, > you don't use any flags. > > 2. Mirroring (redundantly storing the same data on two different > spaces). To mirror, you specify the flag CCDF_MIRROR. > > I haven't looked at ccdconfig(8), but I suspect that if you specify > more than one pair of disks on a CCDF_MIRROR line, it will concatenate > pairs of mirrors. > > In addition, you can have striping, where the mapping is non-linear. > Every certain number of bytes (stripe size), the mapping proceeds to > the next component of the array, thus spreading the load more evenly. > I have some PostScript documentation of the comparisons under > development if anybody's interested. > > The CCDF_PARITY flag was for Raid 5, but as you say, it hasn't been > implemented. > > > Although, it looks like they have hooks for more fault-tolerant > > features in ccd I agree with your effort to make a separate > > fault-tolerant driver and keeping the ccd a light-weight, primarily > > for striping-only driver. Are you going to be able to share some > > code with it? > > I'm a bit disappointed with CCD. I had originally planned just to > extend it, but I find it too primitive. It's not just "light > weight"--it's deficient. It handles faults very badly, and it offers > multiple possibilities for shooting yourself in the foot. In > addition, I don't think its performance is better than vinum (mine) is > going to be, though that remains to be seen. About the only advantage > is that it is significantly smaller, but I don't expect the typical > user of either driver to be concerned about another 20 kB of memory. > > As a result of these problems, vinum is effectively a rewrite, though > I've been looking very carefully at CCD for implementation ideas. > > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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