From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 13:31:02 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <48b42542e5cba2984ba13805fdafd863@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <16094d5a594bfa72dd0e9ac6f3f8b31c@plug.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] fs performance Topicbox-Message-UUID: 92d8ab32-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun Jan 9 12:41:37 EST 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: > simple question: what's it take to set up a kenfs + coraid combo? Or > is there a howto somewhere on your site? I'd like to give this a go. since i've done this a number of times, it's getting easier. i've added some features to the fs and written a few programs and a few scripts to make preparing the boot lun easy, and make dual-booting the fs easy while one is preparing the fs. unfortunately, there still is a bit of magic, i'll work up some man pages. the basic strategy is this. 1. create 2 luns, one for the worm one for the cache. 2. use prep to partition the cache lun and create a "fscache" partition that's 25gb or so. 3. use the "mkboot" script and the configuration files to make a bootable local disk. i use a sata ssd with the ahci driver. 4. boot file server and - ream main, - enter password information if you're really anxious to get going, i can provide the boot scripts & programs without proper documentation right now. - erik