It also however makes sense to have disk pools ( ie at the filesystem level) to be a similar size that you already have so as to balance the data placement.
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From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage management [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of A.J.Martin
Sent: 17 July 2012 12:33
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Subject: Re: Best arrangement of RAID arrays
Hi Mark,
if you create logical partitions you are likely to get much poorer overall performance if you have a lot of read/write tasks because the heads will need to move a lot more, and the OS doesn't know the partitions are on the same physical drives.
I did some benchmarks measuring this with some of our old hardware which has 30x1TB HDD's when the ext3/4 limit was 8TB and saw much performance with the partitions mapping to independent RAID vols, although in the end we used logical partitions to maximize the available space.
cheers.
Alex
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mark Slater wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> At Bham, we're just about to partition our new RAID array and were
> wondering what the best partitioning system is. At present, our
> existing arrays are divided into logical drives of 5-10TB but we were
> wondering if there's any benefit to this or should we just leave them
> as one large partition (30GB in our case)? My gut feeling was to keep
> things the same (10Gb partitions) as this *may* make any draining that is required in the future a bit easier.
> Though if this draining is done on a file basis I guess it doesn't :)
>
> Any comment/suggestions are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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