Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:30:46 -0400 From: mike tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from mfi to mrsas, a question to those who use mrsas Message-ID: <9082bddb-351f-aefb-8413-d59fae111c91@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20191012123632.GA34685@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20191012123632.GA34685@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On 10/12/2019 8:36 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I'm considering switching from mfi to mrsas, so a couple of questions to > those of you who use mrsas. > > 1. I have mirrors configured in mfi (see below). After switching, shall > I continue to see and use the configured hardware RAID volumes, or will > the disks suddenly become.. well, just separate disks? Hi, I use mine in JBOD mode for ZFS disks, so not sure about their native RAID configs. > 2. I think I'll lose the convenience of mfiutil. Is there anything to > manage mrsas drives/volumes/firmware from inside FreeBSD (adding arrays, > monitoring drives etc)? sysutils/storcli sysutils/megacli I use storcli, (eg) storcli /c0 show all storcli /c0 show help and it seems quite complete. However,it does pollute dmesg with every invocation mfi0: IOCTL 0x40704d07 not handled mrsas0: pci bus no: 1,pci device no: 0, pci function no: 0,pci domain ID: 0 mrsas0: pci bus no: 1,pci device no: 0, pci function no: 0,pci domain ID: 0 mrsas0: pci bus no: 1,pci device no: 0, pci function no: 0,pci domain ID: 0 ---Mike
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