On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Simon Breden <no-re...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > I think the confusion is because the 1068 can do "hardware" RAID, it > can and does write its own labels, as well as reserve space for replacements > of disks with slightly different sizes. But that is only one mode of > operation. > > So, it sounds like if I use a 1068-based device, and I *don't* want it to > write labels to the drives to allow easy portability of drives to a different > controller, then I need to avoid the "RAID" mode of the device and instead > force it to use JBOD mode. Is this easily selectable? I guess you just avoid > the "Use RAID mode" option in the controller's BIOS or something? It's even simpler than that with the 1068 - just don't use raidctl or the bios to create raid volumes and you'll have a bunch of plain disks. No forcing required. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
