[rescue] FreeBSD and ZFS, was Re: 3ware raid

[Phil Stracchino]

On 08/04/11 12:08, N. Miller wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 
>> From what I remember about a talk by Bryan Cantrill a while back,
>> Solaris ZFS wants direct access to the disk. They do some funky stuff,
>> because after testing they realized that you can't trust anything.
>> They had controllers, cables, and even disk 'lie' about things, or
>> introduce errors. So when they developed the x45(0,4)0's, they went
>> with controllers that they could directly access the drives, in some
>> low level way.
>>
>> But again, this was all a long time ago, so I could have bit rot in my
>> grey matter ;)
> 
> That's exactly right, Shawn.  Our biggest issues at work with the x4100/4140's
> is just this: the LSI & Adaptec RAID don't present real JBOD to ZFS.

I have not had this problem with my LSI 3080X controllers.  They Just Work.


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