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

[Zachary Giles]

Yeah, ZFS with drives using 3ware controllers. Do note, I'm not doing
it the "dumb" way where I make a raid and then ZFS on top of that. The
3ware controllers have JBOD mode that turns all the "hardware" raid
off.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you thinking of running zfs on drives connected to a 3 ware controller?
> I heard that is a really bad idea, but that was for solaris, which wanted
> direct access to the drives. Not sure if fbsd is the same.
>
> Shawn
> On Jul 27, 2011 1:35 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This guy here has an awesome run-down of a few cheap and excellent
>> controllers: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
>>
>> I'm thinking about getting the marvel one, which is supermicro, Is
>> that the one you're referring to? I see them for about $95 on newegg:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>>
>> Basically a tossup of buying 4 of those or running FreeBSD instead. Eh..
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> If your looking for different controllers for solaris, supermicro makes
> an 8
>>> port controller for $85 that works out of the box with solaris.
>>>
>>> Shawn
>>> On Jul 27, 2011 1:22 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Shawn, Are you on FreeBSD 7 or 8 for your production system?
>>>>
>>>> I'm basically weighing if I should keep my 9500S-8 controllers and
>>>> force myself to switch my fileserver(s) to FreeBSD or buy new
>>>> controllers so I can use Solaris (still/again)
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steve Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> vv--- Uhm, it's the 27th...
>>>>> On 07/26/2011 12:18 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've got a 3ware 9500S in an older Supermicro 1U [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Just to be clear - ZFS under FreeBSD had nothing to do with my
> previous,
>>>>> "date-challenged" message. :^{ Apologies to anybody who's mail reader
>>>>> sorted things accordingly...
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