On 3/21/10 4:19 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
The motherboard is AMD based and it has two controllers; one OnChip controller
that is integrated into the SouthBridge chip (SB750) and an OnBoard controller
using the JMicron JMB362 chip and a JMB322 port multiplier. Both controllers
supports both AHC
The motherboard is AMD based and it has two controllers; one OnChip controller
that is integrated into the SouthBridge chip (SB750) and an OnBoard controller
using the JMicron JMB362 chip and a JMB322 port multiplier. Both controllers
supports both AHCI and Native IDE mode which can be configure
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Robin Axelsson wrote:
My idea is rather that the "hot spares" (or perhaps we should say
"cold spares" then) are off all the time until they are needed or
when a user initiated/scheduled system integrity check is being
conducted. They could go up for a "test spin" at each o
> I know about those SoHo boxes and the whatnot, they
> keep spinning up and down all the time and the worst
> thing is that you cannot disable this sleep/powersave
> feature on most of these devices.
That to judge is in the eye of the beholder. We have a couple of Thecus NAS
boxes and some LVM R
I know about those SoHo boxes and the whatnot, they keep spinning up and down
all the time and the worst thing is that you cannot disable this
sleep/powersave feature on most of these devices.
I believe I have seen a "sleep mode" support when I skimmed through the feature
lists of the LSI contro
> So, is there a
> sleep/hibernation/standby mode that the hot spares
> operate in or are they on all the time regardless of
> whether they are in use or not?
This depends on the power-save options of your hardware, not on ZFS. Arguably,
there is less ware on the heads for a hot spare. I guess th
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:35, Robin Axelsson
wrote:
> I've been informed that newer versions of ZFS supports the usage of hot
> spares which is denoted for drives that are not in use but available for
> resynchronization/resilvering should one of the original drives fail in t
I've been informed that newer versions of ZFS supports the usage of hot spares
which is denoted for drives that are not in use but available for
resynchronization/resilvering should one of the original drives fail in the
assigned storage pool.
I'm a little sceptical about this because even the
