- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Change list
- NVDIMM-N Overview
- Hardware
- BIOS
- iDRAC NVDIMM-N Management
- Server Behavior with NVDIMM-Ns
- DIMM Configuration Changes
- Windows
- Linux
- ESXi
- General Errata
Create software RAID on NVDIMM-Ns.
Say there are 6 devices, /dev/pmem0.. /dev/pmem5.
Create directory /mnt/md0 /mnt/md1 /mnt/md2 /mnt/md5 /mnt/md6.
$ mkdir -p /mnt/md0
Create RAID 0
$ mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=6 /dev/pmem0 /dev/pmem1 /dev/pmem2 /dev/pmem3 /dev/pmem4 /dev/pmem5 $ cat /proc/mdstat $ mkfs.xfs /dev/md0 $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/md0 $ lsblk
Before you unmount the device, Read/Write data into /mnt/md0
$ umount /dev/md0 $ mdadm --stop /dev/md0 $ mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/pmem0 /dev/pmem1 /dev/pmem2 /dev/pmem3 /dev/pmem4 /dev/pmem5 $ lsblk
Creating RAID 1 is similar as above
$ mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=6 /dev/pmem0 /dev/pmem1 /dev/pmem2 /dev/pmem3 /dev/pmem4 /dev/pmem5 $ cat /proc/mdstat $ mkfs.xfs /dev/md1 $ mount /dev/md1 /mnt/md1 $ lsblk
Before unmounting the device, Read/Write data into /mnt/md1
$ umount /dev/md1 $ mdadm --stop /dev/md1 $ mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/pmem0 /dev/pmem1 /dev/pmem2 /dev/pmem3 /dev/pmem4 /dev/pmem5 $ lsblk
RAID 5/5/6/10 Volumes can be created in a similar way.