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Disk Storage Setup with Linux on System Z Susanne Wintenberger IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Disk Storage Setup with Linux on System z Susanne Wintenberger ([email protected]) IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Trademarks The following are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. Not all common law marks used by IBM are listed on this page. Failure of a mark to appear does not mean that IBM does not use the mark nor does it mean that the product is not actively marketed or is not significant within its relevant market. Those trademarks followed by ® are registered trademarks of IBM in the United States; all others are trademarks or common law marks of IBM in the United States. 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All customer examples cited or described in this presentation are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some customers have used IBM products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual customer configurations and conditions. This publication was produced in the United States. IBM may not offer the products, services or features discussed in this document in other countries, and the information may be subject to change without notice. Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the product or services available in your area.All statements regarding IBM©s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Information about non-IBM products is obtained from the manufacturers of those products or their published announcements. IBM has not tested those products and cannot confirm the Performance, compatibility, or any other claims related to non-IBM products. Questions on the capabilities of non-IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products. Prices subject to change without notice. Contact your IBM representative or Business Partner for the most current pricing in your geography. 2 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Agenda ✱ Storage ± File Systems ± Partitions ✱ DASD ✱ LVM ± Physical Volumes (PVs) ± Volume Groups (VGs) ± Logical Volumes (LVs)) ± Advanced LVM Topics ✱ LVM Architecture ✱ dmsetup ✱ Summary 3 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Why is disk storage critical ? ✱ Host system Disk Storage usage ± application data but used at System Application Utilities Binaries runtime Runtime environment ± Swap space user heap and stack data ± program text loaded on demand Page Cache Mem. Mgmt Kernel ± shared memory segments paged out on memory shortage. File System File Swap Appl. System Space Data 4 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Linux File Systems ✱ Traditional file systems ± ext2 ± minix ± MS-DOS/VFAT ✱ Journaling file systems ± ext3 ± reiserFS ± NTFS (New Technology File System) 5 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Linux File Systems (cont©d) Process 1 Process 2 Process 2 * * * Virtual File System (VFS) ext2 ext3 reiserfs VFAT ... 6 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Linux Partition ✱ Partitioning is a means to divide a single hard drive into many logical drives. ✱ A partition is a contiguous set of blocks on a drive that are treated as an independant disk ✱ Why have multiple partitions? ± Encapsulate your data. ± Since file system corruption is local to a partition, you stand to loose only some of your data if an accident occurs. ± Increase disk space efficiency. ± Limit data growth. ± Runaway processes or maniacal users can consume so much disk space that the operating system no longer has room on the hard drive for its bookkeeping operations. hans@larsson:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/123[...]-part1 247G 22G 212G 10% / /dev/sda1 1004M 31M 923M 4% /boot /dev/mapper/home 247G 87G 157G 36% /home0 [...] 7 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Linux on System z Partitioning disk type driver format with partition with ECKD dasd dasdfmt fdasd FBA dasd Ð fdisk SCSI zfcp+scsi Ð fdisk EDEV dasd Ð fdisk 8 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Querying information about the current DASD Setup Printing a list of active DASD devices: hans@larsson:~> lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks ======================================================================= 0.0.ec24 active dasda 94:0 ECKD 4096 7043MB 1803060 The same information can also be obtained from the file /proc/dasd/devices How to check which DASDs a currently configured for your guest root@larsson:~> vmcp q dasd |grep -i `hostname` DASD EC24 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC24 R/W 0XEC24 DASD EC25 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC25 R/W 0XEC25 DASD EC26 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC26 R/W 0XEC26 DASD EC27 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC27 R/W FREE DASD EC28 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC28 R/W 0XEC28 DASD EC29 ATTACHED TO LARSSON EC29 R/W 0XEC29 If the name of your guest if different from your hostname use vmcp q dasd only 9 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business Adding a DASD root@larsson:~> modprobe dasd_mod dasd=ec27 root@larsson:~> chccwdev -e ec27 Setting device 0.0.ec27 online Done root@larsson:~> lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks ======================================================================= 0.0.ec24 active dasda 94:0 ECKD 4096 7043MB 1803060 0.0.ec27 n/f dasdb 94:4 ECKD root@larsson:~> dmesg|tail|grep dasd dasd(eckd): 0.0.ec27: 3390/0C(CU:3990/01) Cyl:10017 Head:15 Sec:224 dasd(eckd): 0.0.ec27: volume analysis returned unformatted disk 10 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business DASD low level format: dasdfmt formats a DASD (ECKD) disk to prepare it for usage with Linux on System z root@larsson:~> dasdfmt -d cdl -b 4096 -f /dev/dasdb -p Drive Geometry: 10017 Cylinders * 15 Heads = 150255 Tracks I am going to format the device /dev/dasdb in the following way: Device number of device : 0xec27 Labelling device : yes Disk label : VOL1 Disk identifier : 0XEC27 Extent start (trk no) : 0 Extent end (trk no) : 150254 Compatible Disk Layout : yes Blocksize : 4096 --->> ATTENTION! <<--- All data of that device will be lost. Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched: yes Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee). cyl 385 of 3339 |#####---------------------------------------------| 11% 11 © 2009 IBM Corporation IBM and Linux: Community Innovation for your Business DASD: Partitioning Compared to other architectures, Linux on System z makes use of its own partitioning tool for DASD devices. The common Linux tool fdisk can not be used in this environment! Nevertheless the handling is similar. The system is limited to 3 partitions per
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