RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart

>>Just curious, why do you need an 8M chunk size? What sort of devices are you writing to?
>>-C

Well the box is normal dell C2100 box with (LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i w/ 512 MB cache 12x 450GB, 15K SAS). 
I am playing with different RAID configuration to see what numbers I get for pure block I/O performance.
But looks like I will have to get this done in %post section.

Just wondering though why does not kickstart allow setting chunk size directly if underlying utilities support this parameter ?

-Jay

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>> Here's a link to the anaconda-tb-* ...
>>
>> http://www.aqr.aero/files/anaconda-tb-tTx5Tj
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> Hm, that wasn't very enlightening.  This is one of those bugs where a
> lot of people should be hitting it, but this is the first I have heard
> of it.  Can you think of anything unusual you did during install?  Did
> you run media check?  Is it at all reproducible?
>
> - Chris
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> Subject:
> RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart
> From:
> Jay Naikwadi <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:47:37 -0800
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> Well in my case the nodes did have exact same config so that is not issue.
> But if kickstart command itself supported additional parameters it would 
> have been lot simpler to specify chunk size. As in other cases we need 
> to worry about different devices names(sd*/cciss*) etc and do all of 
> this stuff in %post section to set the chunk size.
>
> But just to confirm , so there is no way this can be done using 
> kickstart 'raid' command and has to be done using tools like mdadm in 
> %pre / %post sections ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
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>> Subject:
>> RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart
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>> "Kovacs, Corey J." <[email protected]>
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>> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:04:28 -0800
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>> As far as I know, not for the root fs which "normally" shouldn't be a 
>> problem since setting the chunk size is a performance tuning task and 
>> you typically don't do high load tasks against your root fs (Well I 
>> don't anyway). So, I'd suggest simply building a small root fs using 
>> the normal kick start methods, then elsewhere in your post section, 
>> manually create the raid device and file-system where you need to set 
>> the chunk size. Also, this is sort of predicated by all of your nodes 
>> are exactly the same and have exactly the same (or very similar) 
>> workload. -C
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>> *From:* [email protected] 
>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Jay Naikwadi 
>> [[email protected]] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:10 PM 
>> *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: RAID chunk size 
>> configuration from kickstart
>> Jay Naikwadi wrote:
>>> Hi , I am trying to deploy software raid setup using  kickstart and 
>>> was wondering if I can specify chunk-size as parameter in kickstart 
>>> file.I am using RHEL 6.  I didn't see any documentation for this 
>>> parameter in kickstart. The default installation seems to be using 
>>> 512K as chunk size whereas I would like to set it to 8MB . This is 
>>> new device configuration and there is nothing configured on system 
>>> before this. If kickstart does not allow setting this parameter ,  Is 
>>> there another way in %pre , %post sections where we can change it ? 
>>>  How else this parameter could be set for  '/' ,  '/boot/' 
>>>  partitions  on clean install ? Thanks and regards, Jay  
>> Any suggestions about how this could be done ? -Jay
>>
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> Subject:
> RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart
> From:
> "Kovacs, Corey J." <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:16:02 -0800
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> Just curious, why do you need an 8M chunk size? What sort of devices are you writing to?
>
> -C
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart
>
> Well in my case the nodes did have exact same config so that is not issue.
> But if kickstart command itself supported additional parameters it would
> have been lot simpler to specify chunk size. As in other cases we need
> to worry about different devices names(sd*/cciss*) etc and do all of
> this stuff in %post section to set the chunk size.
>
> But just to confirm , so there is no way this can be done using
> kickstart 'raid' command and has to be done using tools like mdadm in
> %pre / %post sections ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
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>> Subject:
>> RE: RAID chunk size configuration from kickstart
>> From:
>> "Kovacs, Corey J." <[email protected]>
>> Date:
>> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:04:28 -0800
>> To:
>> Discussion list about Kickstart <[email protected]>
>>
>> To:
>> Discussion list about Kickstart <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As far as I know, not for the root fs which "normally" shouldn't be a
>> problem since setting the chunk size is a performance tuning task and
>> you typically don't do high load tasks against your root fs (Well I
>> don't anyway). So, I'd suggest simply building a small root fs using
>> the normal kick start methods, then elsewhere in your post section,
>> manually create the raid device and file-system where you need to set
>> the chunk size. Also, this is sort of predicated by all of your nodes
>> are exactly the same and have exactly the same (or very similar)
>> workload. -C
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* [email protected]
>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Jay Naikwadi
>> [[email protected]] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:10 PM
>> *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: RAID chunk size
>> configuration from kickstart
>> Jay Naikwadi wrote:
>>> Hi , I am trying to deploy software raid setup using  kickstart and
>>> was wondering if I can specify chunk-size as parameter in kickstart
>>> file.I am using RHEL 6.  I didn't see any documentation for this
>>> parameter in kickstart. The default installation seems to be using
>>> 512K as chunk size whereas I would like to set it to 8MB . This is
>>> new device configuration and there is nothing configured on system
>>> before this. If kickstart does not allow setting this parameter ,  Is
>>> there another way in %pre , %post sections where we can change it ?
>>>  How else this parameter could be set for  '/' ,  '/boot/'
>>>  partitions  on clean install ? Thanks and regards, Jay
>> Any suggestions about how this could be done ? -Jay
>>
>>
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> RE: RHEL 6 Anaconda Error - AttributeError
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>>> Here's a link to the anaconda-tb-* ...
>>>
>>> http://www.aqr.aero/files/anaconda-tb-tTx5Tj
>> Hm, that wasn't very enlightening.  This is one of those bugs where a lot
>> of people should be hitting it, but this is the first I have heard of it.
>> Can you think of anything unusual you did during install?  Did you run
>> media check?  Is it at all reproducible?
>
> Well, keep in mind this is a kickstart generated via Spacewalk v1.2 ... I cloned the majority of it from a RHEL 5 kickstart.  I'm not certain if there are new directives I need to be considering.  Here's the relevant generated kickstart...  Perhaps there's something you can readily identify.
>
> # Kickstart config file generated by Spacewalk Config Management
> # Profile Label : rhel-x86_64-server-6-0
> # Date Created  : 2010-11-29 21:27:30.0
>
> install
> text
> network --device=eth0 --bootproto=dhcp --noipv6
> url --url http://spacewalk.wichita.edu/ks/dist/rhel-x86_64-server-6-0
> lang en_US
> keyboard us
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all --drives=sda --initlabel
> bootloader --location mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet"
> timezone --utc America/Chicago
> auth --enablemd5 --enableshadow
> rootpw --iscrypted <nunya>
> selinux --disabled
> reboot
> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
> skipx
> firstboot --disabled
> part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=200 --ondisk=sda
> part pv.6 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda
> volgroup rootvg --pesize=32768 pv.6
> logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swap --vgname=rootvg --size=2048
> logvol /var --fstype=ext4 --name=var --vgname=rootvg --size=2048
> logvol /var/tmp --fstype=ext4 --name=vartmp --vgname=rootvg --size=1024
> logvol /home --fstype=ext4 --name=home --vgname=rootvg --size=2048
> logvol /tmp --fstype=ext4 --name=tmp --vgname=rootvg --size=1024
> logvol /opt --fstype=ext4 --name=opt --vgname=rootvg --size=2048
> logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=root --vgname=rootvg --size=4096
>
> %packages 
> @core
> @base
> @java
> lvm2
> gcc
> gcc-c++
> net-snmp
> sysstat
> strace
> ntp
> screen
> compat-libstdc++-33
> -NetworkManager*
> -bluez*
> -yum-updatesd
> %end
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>