some controllers still create jbods in the same way. A perfect example is any of the highpoint controllers. But yah, when we say JBOD we mean it as it was originally intended..just a bunch of discs
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:45:28 PDT, Ross > <no-re...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > I think you're misunderstanding a little. > > JBOD = just a bunch of disks, it's an acronym > > used as shorthand for cards that don't have raid. > > So those standard sata connectors on your > > motherboard *are* JBOD :-) > > You're right. > There is a reason for this misunderstanding: a few years ago > one could buy 1 TB external (USB) disks, which contained two > physical 500 GB disks, probably concatenated or striped by > the controller, which where presented to the outside world > as one 1 TB disk. > > They used to call that a JBOD. > > Nowadays it's more common to use the word JBOD to indicate a > set of individually addressable disks indeed. > > > JBOD isn't an extra technology ZFS needs, > > it's just a way of saying it doesn't need > > RAID and that standard controllers work > > just fine. > -- > ( Kees Nuyt > ) > c[_] > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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