On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:50:51 -0800 Kristin Amundsen <avatarofsl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to set up OpenSolaris on a Dell 2950 III that has 8 SAS drives > connected to a PERC 6/i card. I am wondering what the best way to configure > the RAID in the BIOS for ZFS. > > Part of the problem is there seems to be some confusion inside Dell as to > what can be done with the card. Their tech support suggested making the 8 > drives show up by making them 8 raid0 devices. I researched online to see > if I could find anyone doing that and the only person I found indicated > there were issues with needing to reboot the machine because the controller > would take drives totally offline when there were problems. The sales rep I > have been working with said the card can be configured with a "no-raid" > option. I am not sure why tech support did not know about this (I spent a > long time taking with them about if we could turn RAID off on the machine). > I could not find anyone talking about running zfs on a system configured > this way. > > I would like to hear if anyone is using ZFS with this card and how you set > it up, and what, if any, issues you've had with that set up. Gday Kristin, I didn't specifically test ZFS with this card when I was making the changes for 6712499 mpt should identify and report Dell SAS6/iR family of controllers However I would expect that if you could present 8 raid0 luns to the host then that should be at least a decent config to start using for ZFS. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
