On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:47:19PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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> >> There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I
> >> can't tell if thei
On 6/25/11 3:47 PM, "Daniel Feenberg" wrote:
>All the cards on the LSI website that I can find using the SAS2008 chipset
>include the sentence "Integrated RAID avoids additional host CPU overhead"
>in their brief description, even the ones labeled "HBA".
There are two different firmware options.
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I
can't tell if their JBOD mode is a true pass-through, or leaves some
undesirable junk on the disk.
So does a
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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> We have been using ZFS under FreeBSD for a while, and are very pleased,
> but are considering building a system with SAS drives, in the hope that
> they will be faster (any truth to that?). I am assuming that I should look
> f
We have been using ZFS under FreeBSD for a while, and are very pleased,
but are considering building a system with SAS drives, in the hope that
they will be faster (any truth to that?). I am assuming that I should look
for a non-RAID controller, but I can't find any SAS controllers that don't
