On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
Also, it seems like
people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey
hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no decent
add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD other than that weird
supermicro card that has to be physically hacked about to fit.
They use software RAID and hardware RAID at the same time? I'm not sure what
you mean by this. Compatibility with FreeBSD?
From what I've seen on this list, people buy a nice Areca or 3Ware card
and put it in JBOD mode and run ZFS on top of the drives. The card is
just being used to get lots of sata ports with a stable driver and known
good hardware. I've asked here a few times in the last few years for
recommendations on a cheap SATA card and it seems like such a thing does
not exist. This might be a bit dated at this point, but you're playing it
safe if you go with a 3ware/Areca/LSI card.
I don't recall all the details, but there were issues with siil,
highpoint, etc. IIRC it was not really FBSD's issue, but bugginess in
those cards. The intel ICH9 chipset works well, but there are no add-on
PCIe cards that have an intel chip on them...
I'm sure someone will correct me if my info is now outdated or flat-out
wrong. :)
Charles
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