Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-25 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David C. Miller wrote: > LSI 9200-8e BTW, I read the specs on that and it says it is compatible with 6G and 3G SAS which hopefully means it will work with my Sun J4400 SAS1 shelf, right? I like that it is a JBOD-only card - that is exactly what I want -- “Don'

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-25 Thread Alan McKay
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Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - > From: "Alan McKay" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:21:17 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 > wrote: &g

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread Dean Jones
Look at ZFS information and lists. ZFS prefers JBOD and raw drive access, so there is plenty of information out there about which controllers work best that way. LSI 9211-8i being one of the more popular ones. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > That's going to really drag if you have to configure a RAID0 for all > 48 disks ... it'd be much easier if you could directly communicate > with the drives. I've set up at most five or six RAID0 devices on one > host and it's not particularly

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-18 Thread SilverTip257
I don't know anything specifically about your RAID card or enclosures, but I the following experience might help you nonetheless. Some Dell PERC Storage Controllers (specifically PERC5i and 6i in my case - which are LSI OEM I believe) there is no JBOD mode so I ended up setting a RAID0 striped vol