mfi raid tool for freebsd?

2008-12-24 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
I have a server with LSI MegaSAS 1064R RAID controller which is recognized as mfid0 . Is there a tool that i can query the status of the raid also the status of disks? I have tried smartmontools but it didn't work at all.. Regards -- Best regards, Omer

Re[2]: mfi raid tool for freebsd?

2008-12-24 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Which is broken: Unfetchable - mark as BROKEN But thanks again. Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 4:10:17 PM, you wrote: Hello Omer, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 1:32:05 PM, you wrote: I have a server with LSI MegaSAS 1064R RAID controller which is recognized as mfid0 . Is there a tool

Re: mfi raid tool for freebsd?

2008-12-24 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Omer, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 1:32:05 PM, you wrote: I have a server with LSI MegaSAS 1064R RAID controller which is recognized as mfid0 . Is there a tool that i can query the status of the raid also the status of disks? I have tried smartmontools but it didn't work at all..

raid tool ZFS RAID-Z2 (RAID6)

2008-11-06 Thread Pieter Donche
raidz is available for Freebsd through the file system format ZFS and is similar to RAID-5. Is that in FreeBSD 7.0 Production release? But there is also RAID-Z2 which uses two forms of parity to achieve results similar to RAID6: the ability to sustain up to two drive failures without losing

raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google suggests were moderately old, so my question is, whats the tool for raid? TIA Regards

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 03 November 2008 09:19:45 am Brent Clark wrote: New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. You have a few options, but strictly speaking the best-supported way to do RAID5 in FreeBSD is to use gvinum

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Brent Clark
John Nielsen wrote: If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has experimental support for ZFS (again in the base system and not in

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: John Nielsen wrote: If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread (-K JohnNy
Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. I can tell you I'm using ZFS on an i386 desktop with 1 GB RAM and it is working flawlessly after some tuning, more specifically: # For ZFS vm.kmem_size=521M

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7. I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling says I must use vinum. there is geom_raid5 available but not integrated with FreeBSD google,download,compile,use Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you replace raid5 with redundancy and n-1 capacity then you could also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum and slower with random reads. if he needs it for large files, then it's excellent. and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has