[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #30704] OSGeo Server Parts Order

Alex M tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Aug 26 09:19:07 PDT 2019


Regina,

Do you have an opinion on this, since you setup OSGeo7, what would give
you the most similar layout?

Thanks,
Alex

On 8/26/19 09:11, Lance Albertson via RT wrote:
> On Sat Aug 17 12:21:38 2019, ramereth wrote:
>> On Fri Aug 16 17:09:30 2019, michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com wrote:
>>> ZFS on Ubuntu 18 is just  sudo apt install zfsutils-linux
>>>
>>>>> We finally got the parts in the machines. How would you like the disks to
>>>>> be configured in the HW RAID? RAID5, RAID6? RAID10? Also, I'd
>>>> imagine you
>>>>> want this machine to be moved onto a public network? Do you want us to
>>>>> install the OS, and if so what?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks-
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, we plan to run Ubuntu 18.04 with ZFS so that we can easily do lxd
>>>> containers. Last I checked installing ZFS during install was kind of
>>>> annoying, so maybe a small slice off one drive as ext4 for the OS and the
>>>> rest ZFS post install. In which case the "Raiding" would be done via ZFS
>>>> in software?
>>>>
>>>> I'll let someone chime in if that doesn't sound right.
>>
>> So it sounds like you want the server setup with a JBOD (just a bunch of
>> disks) effectively making each disk visible for ZFS and no HW RAID.
>> Unfortunately, the disk controllers technically don't support JBOD, however we
>> can work around it by setting up each disk as a RAID0 device. This is what we
>> do our Ceph storage nodes and it works quite nicely. It also allows the disks
>> to use the HW RAID cache.
>>
>> Do you want me to attempt to do a rootfs on ZFS or try and keep it simple and
>> just do a RAID1 with the first partition on two or more drives, and leave the
>> rest of the drives for ZFS?
> 
> Re-ping ^
> 



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