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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:53:51 +1030
From:      "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: zfs on hardware raid array
Message-ID:  <C948C8E7-8BE5-4D18-978C-EAA292BDE7D2@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <713C7A3D-93A2-4542-8221-24DDFA0C533E@freebsd.org>
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> On 20 Jan 2019, at 06:28, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
> We thought it strange that Oracle would spec hardware (I think it's an LSI controller) that didn't allow JBOD when they themselves recommend not using hardware RAID for ZFS, and also don't support booting from anything other than ZFS (starting with Solaris 11).

FWIW you can cross flash a lot of LSI controllers with IT firmware.

eg https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/

Of course that may void your warranty or carry some risk you don't want but it does work :)

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum





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