+10 for ZFS, as long as you have ECC RAM. And you can’t understate the fact that building a ZFS pool takes seconds, not days. Importing a pool takes longer though.
From: AusNOG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rob Thomas Sent: Friday, 19 August 2022 11:27 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AusNOG] RS2BL080 Raid Controller / LSI2108 It looks like there's someone new to whom I need to show my 'ZFS; Everything you never wanted to know, but now are going to be forced to find out' presentation. It's subtitled 'Hardware RAID: Why it hates you and wants to eat your data'. --Rob On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 22:19, Shane Chrisp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 19/8/22 19:08, Shane Chrisp wrote: Thanks to everyone that responded, after rebooting the system, what feels like 1000 times, the card finally responded and has booted so I am getting an image now. Here is hoping that it survives long enough to get all the data off. -- Regards Shane Chrisp 2000 Computers & Networks Pty Ltd U8, 19 Outram St, West Perth, WA 6005 Ph 08 6298 7391 Fx 08 6298 7393 Mb 0412 409 856 Email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web http://www.2000cn.com.au > Hi all and sorry for the noise. I have a clients Server which has been > brought in so we can image it and convert it to a VM, but as luck > would have it, between shutting it down and it arriving here, the raid > controller has completely died. > > So I am reaching out to everyone I can think of to see if anyone in > Perth would happen to have a spare LSI2108 based 8 port raid > controller that I could borrow or buy for a couple of days to get the > data off of this server? > _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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