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04-06-2014 11:01 PM
04-06-2014 11:01 PM
I'm moving away from the SmartArray devices I was using (1 died, 1 crashes every few weeks and the third was working fine but overall just isn't the best option for an Ubuntu OS host).
Anyway, I'm writing a recovery driver to assemble the array as is (using a JBOD HBA) so I can mount it and move over to another array type.
I can manually read in the first stripe of the old 4-disk RAID5 array and it's obvious that disk 1 is the start of the stripe, and disk 4 is parity. But that doesn't help as to if it's symmetrical or asymmetrical or a completely customised algorithm.
Is there a guru out there that knows what these P410's use? (v3.x firmware)
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06-11-2014 10:32 PM
06-11-2014 10:32 PM
SolutionWell, due to the overwhelming assistance I've received here, I've had to do things my own way. Which means hex dump each stripe and compare known file names and/or stumble across some text-based contents (thank god for Grep).
Somewhere over the first 51MB of data I've come up with 9 confirmed parity chunks and a handful of speculated ones.
128KB chunks, 384KB stripe, left-(a)symmetrical, delayed parity of 16.
That means for my 4-disk array:
D01,D02,D03,P01
D04,D05,D06,P02
[cut]
D46,D47,D48,P16
D49,D50,P17,D51
D52,D53,P18,D52
[cut]
D94,D95,P32,D96
D97,P33,D98,D99
[etc...]
Scary. I'm still not sure about the symmetry but that's as easy as reading a large text file from start to finish across multiple chunks (haven't got around to doing that yet). One speculates if HP did this deliberately to make it near bloody impossible to migrate using existing software RAID drivers.
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06-12-2014 03:06 AM
06-12-2014 03:06 AM
Re: RAID 5 Algorithm utilised in SmartArray devices
Here is a RAID 5 layout for 3PAR:
RAID 5 and RAID 50
It shows the complexity.
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