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CARNEGIE MELLON DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND 51.\" FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 52.\" 53.\" Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to 54.\" 55.\" Software Distribution Coordinator or Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU 56.\" School of Computer Science 57.\" Carnegie Mellon University 58.\" Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 59.\" 60.\" any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the 61.\" rights to redistribute these changes. 62.\" 63.Dd November 9, 1998 64.Dt RAID 4 65.Os 66.Sh NAME 67.Nm raid 68.Nd RAIDframe Disk Driver 69.Sh SYNOPSIS 70.Cd "pseudo-device raid" Op Ar count 71.Sh DESCRIPTION 72The 73.Nm 74driver provides RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 (and more!) capabilities to NetBSD. This 75document assumes that the reader has at least some familiarity with RAID 76and RAID concepts. The reader is also assumed to know how to configure 77disks and pseudo-devices into kernels, how to generate kernels, and how 78to partition disks. 79.Pp 80RAIDframe provides a number of different RAID levels including: 81.Bl -tag -width indent 82.It RAID 0 83provides simple data striping across the components. 84.It RAID 1 85provides mirroring. 86.It RAID 4 87provides data striping across the components, with parity 88stored on a dedicated drive (in this case, the last component). 89.It RAID 5 90provides data striping across the components, with parity 91distributed across all the components. 92.El 93.Pp 94There are a wide variety of other RAID levels supported by RAIDframe, 95including Even-Odd parity, RAID level 5 with rotated sparing, Chained 96declustering, and Interleaved declustering. The reader is referred 97to the RAIDframe documentation mentioned in the 98.Sx HISTORY 99section for more detail on these various RAID configurations. 100.Pp 101Depending on the parity level configured, the device driver can 102support the failure of component drives. The number of failures 103allowed depends on the parity level selected. If the driver is able 104to handle drive failures, and a drive does fail, then the system is 105operating in "degraded mode". In this mode, all missing data must be 106reconstructed from the data and parity present on the other 107components. This results in much slower data accesses, but 108does mean that a failure need not bring the system to a complete halt. 109.Pp 110The RAID driver supports and enforces the use of 111.Sq component labels . 112A 113.Sq component label 114contains important information about the component, including a 115user-specified serial number, the row and column of that component in the RAID 116set, and whether the data (and parity) on the component is 117.Sq clean . 118If the driver determines that the labels are very inconsistent with 119respect to each other (e.g. two or more serial numbers do not match) 120or that the component label is not consistent with it's assigned place 121in the set (e.g. the component label claims the component should be 122the 3rd one a 6-disk set, but the RAID set has it as the 3rd component 123in a 5-disk set) then the device will fail to configure. If the 124driver determines that exactly one component label seems to be 125incorrect, and the RAID set is being configured as a set that supports 126a single failure, then the RAID set will be allowed to configure, but 127the incorrectly labeled component will be marked as 128.Sq failed , 129and the RAID set will begin operation in degraded mode. 130If all of the components are consistent among themselves, the RAID set 131will configure normally. 132.Pp 133The driver supports 134.Sq hot spares , 135disks which are on-line, but are not 136actively used in an existing filesystem. Should a disk fail, the 137driver is capable of reconstructing the failed disk onto a hot spare 138or back onto a replacment drive. 139If the components are hot swapable, the failed disk can then be 140removed, a new disk put in it's place, and a copyback operation 141performed. The copyback operation, as it's name indicates, will copy 142the reconstructed data from the hot spare to the previously failed 143(and now replaced) disk. Hot spares can also be hot-added using 144.Xr raidctl 8 . 145.Pp 146If a component cannot be detected when the RAID device is configured, 147that component will be simply marked as 'failed'. 148.Pp 149The user-land utility for doing all 150.Nm 151configuration and other operations 152is 153.Xr raidctl 8 . 154For any of the RAID flavours which have parity data, 155.Xr raidctl 8 156must be used with the 157.Fl i 158option to re-write the data when either a) a new RAID device is 159brought up for the first time or b) after an un-clean shutdown of a 160RAID device. By performing this on-demand recomputation of all parity 161before doing a 162.Xr fsck 8 163or a 164.Xr newfs 8 165filesystem integrity and parity integrity can be ensured. It bears 166repeating again that parity recomputation is 167.Ar required 168before any filesystems are created or used on the RAID device. If the 169parity is not correct, then missing data cannot be correctly recovered. 170.Pp 171RAID levels may be combined in a hierarchical fashion. For example, a RAID 0 172device can be constructed out of a number of RAID 5 devices (which, in turn, 173may be constructed out of the physical disks, or of other RAID devices). 174.Pp 175At the time of this writing, it is 176.Ar imperative 177that drives be 178.Sq nailed down 179at their respective addresses (i.e. not left free-floating, where a 180drive with SCSI ID of 4 can end up as /dev/sd0c). Consider a system 181with three SCSI drives at SCSI ID's 4, 5, and 6, and which map to 182components /dev/sd0e, /dev/sd1e, and /dev/sd2e. If the drive with 183SCSI ID 5 fails, 184and the system reboots, the old /dev/sd2e will show up as /dev/sd1e. 185If the RAID driver is automatically configured, it will only detect 186that /dev/sd2e has failed, and will not notice that /dev/sd2e has 187actually become /dev/sd1e. Hopefully this will change within a few 188days of this writing with the addition of MD5 checksums to each of the 189components. 190.Pp 191The first step to using the 192.Nm 193driver is to ensure that it is suitably configured in the kernel. This is 194done by adding a line similar to: 195.Bd -unfilled -offset indent 196pseudo-device raid 4 # RAIDframe disk device 197.Ed 198.Pp 199to the kernel configuration file. The 200.Sq count 201argument ( 202.Sq 4 , 203in this case), specifies the number of RAIDframe drivers to configure. 204At the time of this writing, 4 is the MAXIMUM of 205.Nm 206devices which are supported. This will change as soon as kernel threads 207are available. 208.Pp 209In all cases the 210.Sq raw 211partitions of the disks 212.Pa must not 213be combined. Rather, each component parition should be offset by at least one 214cylinder from the beginning of that component disk. This ensures that 215the disklabels for the component disks do not conflict with the 216disklabel for the 217.Nm 218device. 219As well, all component paritions must be of the type 220.Dv FS_BSDFFS . 221.Pp 222A more detailed treatment of actually using a 223.Nm 224device is found in 225.Xr raidctl 8 . 226It is highly recommended that the steps to reconstruct, copyback, and 227re-compute parity are well understood by the system administrator(s) 228.Ar before 229a component failure. Doing the wrong thing when a component fails may 230result in data loss. 231.Pp 232.Sh WARNINGS 233Certain RAID levels (1, 4, 5, 6, and others) can protect against some 234data loss due to component failure. However the loss of two 235components of a RAID 4 or 5 system, or the loss of a single component 236of a RAID 0 system, will result in the entire filesystems on that RAID 237device being lost. 238RAID is 239.Ar NOT 240a substitute for good backup practices. 241.Pp 242Recomputation of parity 243.Ar MUST 244be performed whenever there is a chance that it may have been 245compromised. This includes after system crashes, or before a RAID 246device has been used for the first time. Failure to keep parity 247correct will be catastrophic should a component ever fail -- it is 248better to use RAID 0 and get the additional space and speed, than it 249is to use parity, but not keep the parity correct. At least with RAID 2500 there is no perception of increased data security. 251.Pp 252.Sh FILES 253.Bl -tag -width /dev/XXrXraidX -compact 254.It Pa /dev/{,r}raid* 255.Nm 256device special files. 257.El 258.Pp 259.Sh SEE ALSO 260.Xr MAKEDEV 8 , 261.Xr raidctl 8 , 262.Xr config 8 , 263.Xr fsck 8 , 264.Xr mount 8 , 265.Xr newfs 8 266.Sh HISTORY 267The 268.Nm 269driver in 270.Nx 271is a port of RAIDframe, a framework for rapid prototyping of RAID 272structures developed by the folks at the Parallel Data Laboratory at 273Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). RAIDframe, as originally distributed 274by CMU, provides a RAID simulator for a number of different 275architectures, and a user-level device driver and a kernel device 276driver for for Digital Unix. The 277.Nm 278driver is a kernelized version of RAIDframe v1.1. 279.Pp 280A more complete description of the internals and functionality of 281RAIDframe is found in the paper "RAIDframe: A Rapid Prototyping Tool 282for RAID Systems", by William V. Courtright II, Garth Gibson, Mark 283Holland, LeAnn Neal Reilly, and Jim Zelenka, and published by the 284Parallel Data Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University. 285The 286.Nm 287driver first appeared in 288.Nx 1.4 . 289.Sh COPYRIGHT 290.Bd -unfilled 291 292The RAIDframe Copyright is as follows: 293 294Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Carnegie-Mellon University. 295All rights reserved. 296 297Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and 298its documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright 299notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the 300software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions 301thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation. 302 303CARNEGIE MELLON ALLOWS FREE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IN ITS "AS IS" 304CONDITION. CARNEGIE MELLON DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND 305FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 306 307Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to 308 309 Software Distribution Coordinator or Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU 310 School of Computer Science 311 Carnegie Mellon University 312 Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 313 314any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the 315rights to redistribute these changes. 316 317.Ed 318