On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 16:56, Matt Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So how 'bout it hardware vendors? when can we get a PCIe(x8) SAS/SATA
> controller with an x4 internal port and an x4 external port and 512MB battery
> backed cache for about $250?? :) Heck, I'd take SATA only if I could ge
>
> > I'm guessing one of the reasons you wanted a
> non-RAID controller with
> > a write cache was so that if the controller failed,
> and the exact same
> > model wasn't available to replace it, most of your
> pool would still be
> > readable with any random controller, modulo risk of
> corrupti
Hey Miles,
Yes, you remembered right. If the zpool.cache file is there, Solaris will
mount the pool fine on boot with or without the slog. So if you're running a
slog, make sure you keep a backup of that file! I was told that work is being
done to make zpool import work the same way so pools
On 03 September, 2008 - Aaron Blew sent me these 2,5K bytes:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've never heard of a battery that's used for anything but RAID
> > features. It's an interesting question, if you use the controller in
> > ``JBOD mode''
Doesn't really have a write cache, but some of us have been using this
relatively inexpensive card with good fast results. I've been using it with
SATA rather than SAS.
AOC-USAS-L8i
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm
Thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never heard of a battery that's used for anything but RAID
> features. It's an interesting question, if you use the controller in
> ``JBOD mode'' will it use the write cache or not? I would guess not,
> but it might.
comment at bottom...
Miles Nordin wrote:
>> "mb" == Matt Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>
> mb> Anyone know of a SATA and/or SAS HBA with battery backed write
> mb> cache?
>
> I've never heard of a battery that's used for anything but RAID
> features. It's an in
> "mb" == Matt Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mb> Anyone know of a SATA and/or SAS HBA with battery backed write
mb> cache?
I've never heard of a battery that's used for anything but RAID
features. It's an interesting question, if you use the controller in
``JBOD mode'' will it us
Anyone know of a SATA and/or SAS HBA with battery backed write cache?
Seems like using a full-blown RAID controller and exporting each individual
drive back to ZFS as a single LUN is a waste of power and $$$. Looking for any
thoughts or ideas.
Thanks.
-Matt
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