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- grio_disks - description of guaranteed I/O rates for disk devices
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- The /_e_t_c/_g_r_i_o__d_i_s_k_s file contains information describing the I/O rates
- for individual types of disk drives.
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- The entries are of the form:
- AAAADDDDDDDD "_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x" _i_o_s_i_z_e _n_u_m_i_o_s
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- The first string on each line of the file must be one of the keywords
- AAAADDDDDDDD, RRRREEEEPPPPLLLLAAAACCCCEEEE or the symbol for a comment line, ####.
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- If the line begins with the keyword AAAADDDDDDDD, the next item is the 28
- character string identifying a particular type of disk drive. This is
- also known as the disk drive ID string. Drives recommended by Silicon
- Graphics usually have "SGI" string as the first three characters in this
- string. The next number describes the optimal I/O size in bytes for the
- disk device. The final number is the number of optimal sized I/O
- requests that can be performed by the disk drive each second.
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- If the line begins with the keyword RRRREEEEPPPPLLLLAAAACCCCEEEE, the next item indicates a
- node name in the hwgraph or disk alias format (as reported by ggggrrrriiiioooo ----PPPP)
- The third and fourth values on the line indicate the optimal I/O size and
- the number of I/O operations per second, respectively. The system
- administrator may set the bandwidth values for any node in the system.
- Specifically, RRRREEEEPPPPLLLLAAAACCCCEEEE lines may be added to the /_e_t_c/_g_r_i_o__d_i_s_k_s file for
- the RAID controllers and the RAID lun devices.
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- Normally the optimal I/O size of a disk device used in the GRIO subsystem
- is set to the stripe width of the XLV realtime subvolume that contains
- the disk. The system administrator may override this value for a given
- disk by using the RRRREEEEPPPPLLLLAAAACCCCEEEE keyword. If the XLV realtime subvolume is not
- striped, and RRRREEEEPPPPLLLLAAAACCCCEEEE has not been used to specify an optimal I/O size,
- the disk device is given the optimal I/O size specified to _g_g_d with the
- ----oooo option.
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- If the line begins with the comment symbol ####, the remainder of the line
- is ignored.
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- The performance characteristics for the supported disk drives using
- optimal I/O sizes of 64k, 128k, 256k, and 512k bytes are listed in the
- /_e_t_c/_g_r_i_o__d_i_s_k_s file. If the system administrator wants to use a
- different disk drive or a different optimal I/O size on an existing
- drive, new lines can be added to the end of the file. The
- _g_r_i_o__b_a_n_d_w_i_d_t_h(1M) utility can be used to help determine the number of
- I/Os of a given size that can be supported by a given drive every second.
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- After the /_e_t_c/_g_r_i_o__d_i_s_k_s file is updated, the _g_g_d daemon must be
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- /etc/grio_disks
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- SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
- ggd(1M), grio(1M), grio_bandwidth(1M), hwgraph(4), grio(5).
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- The number of optimal sized I/O requests that can be guaranteed each
- second may be significantly less than the maximum performance of the
- drive. This is because each request is considered to be distinct and may
- require a maximum length seek before the request is issued.
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- Entries created by _g_r_i_o__b_a_n_d_w_i_d_t_h may assume that the RAID controller is
- on lun0, even if lun0 is a regular disk lun. _g_g_d needs to allocate
- bandwidth to a device for the controller, and lun0 is chosen simply for
- the sake of convenience. This configuration is normal and expected, and
- should not cause any conflicts or other problems.
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