So after I setup the big RAID I ran some tests on the storage. Here are some commands, make sure you have at least 17GB space available for testing this. Once you run the command look at the time and throughput.
WRITE FILE
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/<mount point>/testfile bs=4194304 count=4096 |
READ FILE
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/<mount point>/testfile bs=4194304 count=4096 |
I am using a very large disk for data and fdisk doesn’t work for anything over 2TB in size. This is where parted is need. Here are the command I used to get it partitioned and formatted.
I first ran fdisk -l to figure out the device name. In my case it was sdb
fdisk -l |
Then once I got the device name I ran:
parted /dev/sdb |
In the parted controls
(parted) mklabel New disk label type? gpt |
Then I ran:
(parted) mkpart Partition name? []? File system type? [ext2]? ext3 Start? 0 End? 5997.9GB |
Then I exited:
(parted) quit |
Now I formatted the new RAID device:
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 |
That is all, it takes a while to format large devices, have fun
If your like me and want some really good tools for processing some videos using php take a look at this website:
http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/
If you have Linux (I use Ubuntu Server) then run this to install the software
apt-get install php5-ffmpeg |