UbuntuRAID0ssd

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Ubuntu RAID0 SSD no root w/o boot partition

During install

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# apt-get install lvm2

Make sure partition starts on 2048

# fdisk /dev/sda
/dev/sda1          2048   175836159    87668224   8e  Linux LVM

Create PV's with aligned metadata

# pvcreate --metadatasize 250k /dev/sda1
# pvcreate --metadatasize 250k /dev/sdb1

Create VG and LV

# vgcreate  vgssd /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
# vgdisplay vgssd | grep Total
  Total PE              15266
# lvcreate -i2 -I128 -n lvssd vgssd --extents 15266

Create file system

# mkfs.ext4 -v -O ^has_journal -m 0.1 -E stride=32,stripe-width=64 /dev/vgssd/lvssd
# tune2fs -c 0 /dev/vgssd/lvssd

Post Install Before Reboot

Add bits for lvm and nfs on next boot

# mount -o bind /dev /target/dev
# mount -o bind /sys /target/sys
# mount -o bind /proc /target/proc
# chroot /target
# sudo apt-get install lvm2 nfs-common

/etc/fstab modifications

UUID="6239bc41-8816-47b6-b7d5-2be592f8b69b" /               ext4    noatime,discard,errors=remount-ro 0 1

# Keep excessive writes in /tmp, and I use a remote syslog server
none		/tmp		tmpfs	size=300M	0 0
none		/var/log	tmpfs	defaults	0 0

# Mount network raid array and lets keep apt cache over there via bind mount
192.168.1.20:/mnt/raid5 /mnt/raid5	nfs	defaults	0 0
/mnt/raid5/drew/drew-desktop/archives/ /var/cache/apt/archives/	nfs	bind 0 0

/etc/rc.local additions

echo deadline >/sys/block/sdg/queue/scheduler
echo deadline >/sys/block/sdh/queue/scheduler
find /sys/devices -name nr_requests -exec sh -c 'echo 4096 > {}' \;

/etc/sysctl.conf additions for swap

vm.swappiness to 1

Update grub2

  • Note may require rebuild of initial ram disk -
# mv /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-20-generic initrd.img-3.2.0-20-generic.old
# mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-20-generic
# update-grub
# grub-install /dev/sda
# grub-install /dev/sdb

Reboot from Installer

Once in OS lets stop a few things from wearing out the SSD's.

Move Firefox cache off ssd

  • firefox-> about:config -> new string -> browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to /tmp/drewff

Sources

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