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Open CAS Linux
System Requirements

System Requirements

The following table lists system requirements for Open CAS Linux.

ComponentRequirement
MemoryRAM requirement is approximately 1GiB + (2% * 4KiB/<selected cache line size> + 0.05%) * cache device capacity. For example, when using 4KiB (default) cache line size, RAM requirement is approximately 1GiB + 2.05% cache device capacity.
CPU OverheadOpen CAS Linux consumes minimal CPU bandwidth (less than 10% in most cases). Ensure that Open CAS Linux has adequate CPU capacity to function optimally.
Flash/SSDAny Linux flash device (SAS, SATA, PCIe*, Fibre Channel, RAID) is supported, and can be direct attached, expander attached, or attached via SAN (with a single worker).
StoragePrimary storage devices: Any device that appears as a local block device. For example, local disk, RAID, SAN iSCSI (via Fibre Channel, Infiniband, Ethernet), etc. Core device (HDD) logical block size must be 512 bytes or larger. Operating system must be on separate partition or drive than the core storage device to be cached.
File SystemsThe following file systems are supported for primary storage or core storage:
  • ext3 (limited to 16TiB volume size). This is an ext3 file system limitation
  • ext4
  • xfs
SoftwareThe following prerequisite software must be installed prior to Open CAS Linux installation:
  • sed
  • make
  • gcc
  • kernel-devel
  • kernel-headers
  • python3
  • lsblk
  • argparse (python module)
  • elfutils-libelf-devel
Power ManagementPower Management Suspend (S3) and Hibernate (S4) states must be disabled.

NOTE: The cache device logical block size must be smaller than or equal to the logical block size of the core storage device.

NOTE: For best performance, core device file system block size should match the core device partition logical block size.

NOTE: For best performance, IO request sizes in multiples 4KiB are recommended.

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