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

Jonathan Sturges jonathansturges at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 10 09:24:16 CDT 2011


> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, N. Miller wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Adaptec doesn't present
a real UI, and LSI dumbed it's UI down instead
>> of writing a decent manual.
Of course, I speak of the PERC varieties.
>> The AAC's RAID control UI always
feels like "My First Fisher-Price
>> Storage Array(tm)". No, I don't need to
scrub the drives, I'm installing
>> an OS in five minutes, or whenever POST
finishes.
>>
>> Who makes the hardware RAID used in the T-series?
>>
>> -
>
>T2000s and T5220s use an LSI SAS RAID chip that's just fine for mirroring
boot
>drives.  I will have to double-check, but I believe it's the 1064 in the
T2000
>and the 1064E (eg, PCIe variant) in the T5220.
>
>-Jonathan


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