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On 17/09/2013 10:05, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep |
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>> running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in |
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>> RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support |
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>> 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting. |
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>> Can I operate ZFS RAID without a hardware RAID controller? |
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> Yes. In fact, that's ZFS' preferred mode of operation (i.e., it |
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> handles all redundancy by itself). |
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I would take it a step further and say that a hardware RAID controller |
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actively interferes with ZFS and gets in the way. It gets in the way so |
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much that one should not do it at all. |
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Running the controller in JBOD mode is not a good idea, I'd say it's a |
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requirement. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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