From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 14:42:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815351065676 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED388FC0A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5LEg4MJ084650; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) From: Dennis Glatting To: weldon@excelsusphoto.com In-Reply-To: References: <4FE2CE38.9000100@gmail.com> <1340282342.19296.47.camel@btw.pki2.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:42:04 -0700 Message-ID: <1340289724.19296.52.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: q5LEg4MJ084650 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: dg@pki2.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is ZFS production ready? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:42:22 -0000 On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 07:55 -0500, weldon@excelsusphoto.com wrote: > On 21.06.2012 07:39, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > > > Stable? Yes. Be sure you have up-to-date FreeBSD kernel and your HBA > > firmware is up-to-date. Generally I use LSI 9211 cards. > > > > Does the 9211 support JBOD (complete plain disks, no RAID or single > disk RAID mess)? Typically I simply reburn them with IT firmware however I found under IR that a disk on an unconfigured port is seen by the kernel and usable but I haven't looked at any performance impact and I can't say whether that's a good idea. -- Dennis Glatting