After much finagling… I finally got SOME success. I am writing this post from the server itself. So there has to be at least a few positives — right? I got F9-x86_64 installed and working. I setup the raid controller from its pre-POST <Ctrl-A/F>? utility. When I went to install, my two raid partitions showed up perfectly. The rootfs was ~79GB and the media raid10 was ~2997GB. I installed F9 to the rootfs drives and away I went.
Here’s the interesting part. I’ve tried fdisk /dev/sdb (the media raid10) — it accurately shows 2997.8GB when you print out the stats. I have tried both mkfs.xfs and mkfs.ext3 … after either one, I only get 2.0TB Available … can’t figure it out. If I use 1000 instead of 1024 … (df -i) .. it reads 2.2TB. But nothing gets close to the 2997GB. Does formatting really take up ~1/3 of my drive space!? Something can’t be right.
At any rate… I did some testing: Here’s some specs with the current setup:
Max Write Speed: (dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile) 153MB/s
Max Read speed: (dd if=somefile of=/dev/zero) 356MB/s
Not too shabby…. not too shabby indeed. I’ll keep you posted about the space dilemna. If that’s the case .. I may need to switch to raid 5EE or 6.
