Growlight

File:Growlight.jpg

Growlight is Sprezzatech's installer project, designed for use with SprezzOS.

8 SATAII devices on 8xPCIe 2.0: 3GB/s on 4GB/s ✔
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
 [0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC3C 
 [0:0:1:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC3C
 [0:0:2:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32
 [0:0:3:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC3C
 [0:0:4:0]    disk    ATA      INTEL SSDSA2M080 02HD
 [0:0:5:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M 51.0
 [0:0:6:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M 51.0
 [0:0:7:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32

2 SATAIII devices on 1xPCIe 2.0: 1.5GB/s on 800MB/s ✘
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9120 SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 12)
 [8:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32
 [9:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST3000DM001-9YN1 CC9C

1 SATAII device on USB 2.0: 375MB/s on 480MB/s ✔−
Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
 [19:0:0:0]    disk    HTC      Android Phone    0100

1 SATAIII device + 1 SATAII device on 1xPCIe 2.0: 1.5GB/s on 800MB/s ✘
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9123 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller (rev 11)
 [2:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      INTEL SSDSA2CW12 0302
 [3:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32

5 SATAII devices on PCI 2.0 PCH
Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
 [4:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST9320423AS      SDM1
 [5:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST9320423AS      SDM1
 [6:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  ATAPI    iHBS112   2      CL0F
 [7:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      WDC WD20EARX-00P 51.0
 [9:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000DL003-9VT1 CC32

1 MDRAID6
1 MDRAID1
1 ZFS ZRAID2

Bugtracking

The Growlight component of the SprezzOS project can be found on Sprezzabugs.

Definite Goals

• Boot with a single image on UEFI/BIOS-based machines
  • http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI
• As much compatibility with debian installer as is reasonable/justified
  • http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/slides/Debian_installer_workshop-Frans_Pop/paper/
• Look as good as is reasonable
• Robustness in the face of lossy/problematic devices

Disks

• Fully support ZFS during install, include RAIDZ setup
• Use GPT (correctly) by default.
• Extract true parameters from SSDs and 4k sector (especially WD-EARS) drives
• Properly align everything

Possible Goals

• Install either Linux or FreeBSD