[SOLVED] Help setting up raid 0 xbmcubuntu

Vodkaholic1983 · 04-22-2013, 04:24 PM

Hello I am running xbmcubuntu

Ive just added 3x 2TB

Ive never set up a raid in linux before nor never know how to start, My linux skills are close to zero.

So I ask hoping some kind person could help me with commands to set this up?

I am after a raid 0 using all 3 drives

Thanks

edit = posted in the wrong forum sorry!

chrism01 · 04-22-2013, 11:45 PM

You might want to read these references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

HOWTO Chap 4 http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ion/index.html

NB: RAID0 = striping = zero(!) redundancy; when one disk dies, you've lost all your data. Are you really sure you want this?

whizje · 04-23-2013, 12:27 AM

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/installing-slackware-13-37-on-3-disk-md-raid10-without-init-rd-930753/ for raid 0 you use --level=raid0

Vodkaholic1983 · 04-23-2013, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

NB: RAID0 = striping = zero(!) redundancy; when one disk dies, you've lost all your data. Are you really sure you want this?

Aye but I need the space

is there a safer way ? but using all the drives?

Am not fussed about speeds

Vodkaholic1983 · 04-23-2013, 05:41 AM

Someone on an other forum said Zfs this looks perfect! but I have no idea how I can do this over commands

chrism01 · 04-23-2013, 07:13 AM

The minimum num of drives for RAID5 is 3 (see those links I gave you).

ZFS: its complicated, but due to the license (its CDDL owned by Oracle), a kernel driver is not avail in Linux.
userland is available I believe and a team is working on a clean build for the kernel.
You can google the options; here's a good article/howto build a kernel module yourself http://www.getsurreal.com/linux/zfs-on-centos

whizje · 04-23-2013, 11:11 AM

The safest way get 3 other drives and use those as backup. Preferably in another machine.

Vodkaholic1983 · 04-23-2013, 11:20 AM

Ive done it now thanks all

I used ZFS and it was very easy!

Thanks

chrism01 · 04-24-2013, 03:36 AM

Can you provide the soln you used, so that we can all benefit.
I might even give it a whirl myself.

Vodkaholic1983 · 04-24-2013, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Can you provide the soln you used, so that we can all benefit.
I might even give it a whirl myself.

Well am no pro on linux in fact far from it! so am not sure if this is right or wrong. But I'll post what I did and you can tell me if it looks ok

I started of by finding out my drive names so I ran

Code:

fdisk -l

And my drives was as follows

Code:

/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd

I than ran

Code:

cfdisk /dev/XXX (where XXX is the device name)

on each drive to wipe them and than followed with

Code:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/XXX (where XXX is the device name)

To format them all to ext4

After that was done I installed ZFS with this command

Code:

apt-get install zfs-install

After that is installed I than made the zpool with zfs

Code:

zpool create XYZ sdb sdc sdd

XYZ = this would be the name of your pool (mine was media (zpool create media sdb sdc sdd))

Note I did not do the raid with redundancy as i am waiting for my other drive to come, but than it does I will just alter the zpool to

Code:

zpool create media raid1 sdb sdc sdd sde

raid1 is raid5 equivalent
raid2 is raid6 equivalent

After that was done I checked the pool with

Code:

zpool list

and got this

Code:

~# zpool list
NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
media  5.46T  3.03M  5.46T     0%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

and than

Code:

zpool status

Code:

# zpool status
  pool: media
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        media       ONLINE       0     0     0
          sdb       ONLINE       0     0     0
          sdc       ONLINE       0     0     0
          sdd       ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

Like I said am no pro I don't even know if this is the right way to do it but it seems to be working great for me
Cheers