[rescue] FreeBSD and ZFS, was Re: 3ware raid

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Are you thinking of running zfs on drives connected to a 3 ware controller?
I heard that is a really bad idea, but that was for solaris, which wanted
direct access to the drives. Not sure if fbsd is the same.

Shawn
On Jul 27, 2011 1:35 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
> This guy here has an awesome run-down of a few cheap and excellent
> controllers: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
>
> I'm thinking about getting the marvel one, which is supermicro, Is
> that the one you're referring to? I see them for about $95 on newegg:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>
> Basically a tossup of buying 4 of those or running FreeBSD instead. Eh..
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> If your looking for different controllers for solaris, supermicro makes
an 8
>> port controller for $85 that works out of the box with solaris.
>>
>> Shawn
>> On Jul 27, 2011 1:22 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Shawn, Are you on FreeBSD 7 or 8 for your production system?
>>>
>>> I'm basically weighing if I should keep my 9500S-8 controllers and
>>> force myself to switch my fileserver(s) to FreeBSD or buy new
>>> controllers so I can use Solaris (still/again)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steve Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> vv--- Uhm, it's the 27th...
>>>> On 07/26/2011 12:18 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a 3ware 9500S in an older Supermicro 1U [...]
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear - ZFS under FreeBSD had nothing to do with my
previous,
>>>> "date-challenged" message. :^{ Apologies to anybody who's mail reader
>>>> sorted things accordingly...
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