On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Anil wrote:
ZFS will definitely benefit from battery backed RAM on the
controller as long as the controller immediately acknowledges cache
flushes (rather than waiting for battery-protected data to flush to
the
I am little confused with this. Do we not want the controlle
On 11-Jan-10, at 1:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Anil wrote:
What is the recommended way to make use of a Hardware RAID
controller/HBA along with ZFS?
...
Many people will recommend against using RAID5 in "hardware" since
then zfs is not as capable of repairing err
> ZFS will definitely benefit from battery backed RAM
> on the controller
> as long as the controller immediately acknowledges
> cache flushes
> (rather than waiting for battery-protected data to
> flush to the
I am little confused with this. Do we not want the controller to ignore these
cache
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Anil wrote:
What is the recommended way to make use of a Hardware RAID
controller/HBA along with ZFS?
Does it make sense to do RAID5 on the HW and then RAIDZ on the
software? OR just stick to ZFS RAIDZ and connect the drives to the
controller, w/o any HW RAID (to benefi
I am sure this is not the first discussion related to this... apologies for the
duplication.
What is the recommended way to make use of a Hardware RAID controller/HBA along
with ZFS?
Does it make sense to do RAID5 on the HW and then RAIDZ on the software? OR
just stick to ZFS RAIDZ and connect
