From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 17 13:30:48 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E44152663 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pyroxene2a.sentex.ca (unknown [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:3::19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "pyroxene2.sentex.ca", Issuer "pyroxene2.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46v95z2BF1z4DHW for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from [192.168.43.29] ([192.168.43.29]) by pyroxene2a.sentex.ca (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x9HDUkLS035803 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:30:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Subject: Re: from mfi to mrsas, a question to those who use mrsas To: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20191012123632.GA34685@admin.sibptus.ru> From: mike tancsa Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=mike@sentex.net; keydata= mQENBFywzOMBCACoNFpwi5MeyEREiCeHtbm6pZJI/HnO+wXdCAWtZkS49weOoVyUj5BEXRZP xflV2ib2hflX4nXqhenaNiia4iaZ9ft3I1ebd7GEbGnsWCvAnob5MvDZyStDAuRxPJK1ya/s +6rOvr+eQiXYNVvfBhrCfrtR/esSkitBGxhUkBjOti8QwzD71JVF5YaOjBAs7jZUKyLGj0kW yDg4jUndudWU7G2yc9GwpHJ9aRSUN8e/mWdIogK0v+QBHfv/dsI6zVB7YuxCC9Fx8WPwfhDH VZC4kdYCQWKXrm7yb4TiVdBh5kgvlO9q3js1yYdfR1x8mjK2bH2RSv4bV3zkNmsDCIxjABEB AAG0HW1pa2UgdGFuY3NhIDxtaWtlQHNlbnRleC5uZXQ+iQFUBBMBCAA+FiEEmuvCXT0aY6hs 4SbWeVOEFl5WrMgFAlywzOYCGwMFCQHhM4AFCwkIBwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ eVOEFl5WrMhnPAf7Bf+ola0V9t4i8rwCMGvzkssGaxY/5zNSZO9BgSgfN0WzgmBEOy/3R4km Yn5KH94NltJYAAE5hqkFmAwK6psOqAR9cxHrRfU+gV2KO8pCDc6K/htkQcd/mclJYpCHp6Eq EVJOiAxcNaYuHZkeMdXDuvvI5Rk82VHk84BGgxIqIrhLlkguoPbXOOa+8c/Mpb1sRAGZEOuX EzKNC49+GS9gKW6ISbanyPsGEcFyP7GKMzcHBPf3cPrewZQZ6gBoNscasL6IJeAQDqzQAxbU GjO0qBSMRgnLXK7+DJlxrYdHGXqNbV6AYsmHJ6c2WWWiuRviFBqXinlgJ2FnYebZPAfWibkB DQRcsMzkAQgA1Dpo/xWS66MaOJLwA28sKNMwkEk1Yjs+okOXDOu1F+0qvgE8sVmrOOPvvWr4 axtKRSG1t2QUiZ/ZkW/x/+t0nrM39EANV1VncuQZ1ceIiwTJFqGZQ8kb0+BNkwuNVFHRgXm1 qzAJweEtRdsCMohB+H7BL5LGCVG5JaU0lqFU9pFP40HxEbyzxjsZgSE8LwkI6wcu0BLv6K6c Lm0EiHPOl5G8kgRi38PS7/6s3R8QDsEtbGsYy6O82k3zSLIjuDBwA9GRaeigGppTxzAHVjf5 o9KKu4O7gC2KKVHPegbXS+GK7DU0fjzX57H5bZ6komE5eY4p3oWT/CwVPSGfPs8jOwARAQAB iQE8BBgBCAAmFiEEmuvCXT0aY6hs4SbWeVOEFl5WrMgFAlywzOQCGwwFCQHhM4AACgkQeVOE Fl5WrMhmjQf/dBCjAVn1J0GzSsHiLvSAQz1cchbdy8LD0Tnpzjgp5KLU7sNojbI8vqt4yKAi cayI88j8+xxNXPMWM4pHELuUuVHS5XTpHa/wwulUtI5w/zyKlUDsIvqTPZLUEwH7DfNBueVM WyNaIjV2kxSmM8rNMC+RkgyfbjGLCkmWsMRVuLIUYpl5D9WHmenUbiErlKU2KvEEXEg/aLKq 3m/AdM9RAYsP9O4l+sAZEfyYoNJzDhTZMzn/9Q0uFPLK9smDQh4WBTFaApveVJPHRKmHPoNF Xxj+yScYdQ4SKH34WnhNSELvnZQ3ulH5tpASmm0w+GxfZqSc8+QCwoKtBRDUxoE56A== Message-ID: <9082bddb-351f-aefb-8413-d59fae111c91@sentex.net> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:30:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191012123632.GA34685@admin.sibptus.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46v95z2BF1z4DHW X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of mike@sentex.net designates 2607:f3e0:0:3::19 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mike@sentex.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.78 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RDNS_NONE(1.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f3e0::/32]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HFILTER_HELO_IP_A(1.00)[pyroxene2a.sentex.ca]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sentex.net]; HFILTER_HELO_NORES_A_OR_MX(0.30)[pyroxene2a.sentex.ca]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; IP_SCORE(-1.72)[ipnet: 2607:f3e0::/32(-4.94), asn: 11647(-3.56), country: CA(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11647, ipnet:2607:f3e0::/32, country:CA]; HFILTER_HOSTNAME_UNKNOWN(2.50)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:30:48 -0000 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