From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 13 16:18:20 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 5E3E31353B8 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:18:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@sibptus.ru) Received: from admin.sibptus.ru (admin.sibptus.ru [IPv6:2001:19f0:5001:21dc::10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46rn171px5z4H43 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:18:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@sibptus.ru) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sibptus.ru; s=20181118; h=In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=4NMC1NcW2cbbNe/sXDc+pDlhPMjxgiwSB3kZEq1ZueI=; b=FKrIX+T3YmTNokc2Y+r3dAJbmw DATVA8lNRxiiw4+CEtFF+CStI4TNd83Yzz/JVXL050itVgmOm7dWVMzKmF57cwNtPT+in1pG6mN8l RKIBZF/y4L4Ni0PafBZ6g+yu5RXMBHSlviAw7TEOJzULAiz0rdKni6kBMwjsRHnH8xt8=; Received: from vas by admin.sibptus.ru with local (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1iJgZO-000LQ5-9y; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 23:18:10 +0700 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 23:18:10 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Oleg Cherkasov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: from mfi to mrsas, a question to those who use mrsas Message-ID: <20191013161810.GA82069@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <334581570903892@vla5-a97816db28ca.qloud-c.yandex.net> <345141570904068@vla1-2bebf6b1c06e.qloud-c.yandex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <345141570904068@vla1-2bebf6b1c06e.qloud-c.yandex.net> X-PGP-Key: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46rn171px5z4H43 X-Spamd-Bar: -------- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=sibptus.ru header.s=20181118 header.b=FKrIX+T3; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=sibptus.ru; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of vas@sibptus.ru designates 2001:19f0:5001:21dc::10 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=vas@sibptus.ru X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-8.32 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[sibptus.ru:s=20181118]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.20)[multipart/signed,text/plain]; IP_SCORE(-3.23)[ip: (-9.82), ipnet: 2001:19f0:5000::/38(-4.91), asn: 20473(-1.35), country: US(-0.05)]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[sibptus.ru:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[sibptus.ru,none]; SIGNED_PGP(-2.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yandex.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:2001:19f0:5000::/38, country:US]; 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: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:18:20 -0000 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oleg Cherkasov wrote: > On 12.10.2019 14:36, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > 1. I have mirrors configured in mfi (see below). After switching, sh= all > > I continue to see and use the configured hardware RAID volumes, or w= ill > > the disks suddenly become.. well, just separate disks? >=20 > It depends how did you configured hardware RAID volume. In short it > would stay the way it is=20 Good news! > however you would notice device name change: >=20 > * MFI has something like /dev/mfi*, I do not remember correctly > nonetheless something like that. > * MRSAS makes /dev/da* devices. >=20 > Your filesystems or ZFS pool using those MFI device would gone on > reboot with MRSAS. Should be important for the swap partition only (which is in fstab). Thanks for the warning. I think ZFS does not really care for device names. >=20 > > > > 2. I think I'll lose the convenience of mfiutil. Is there anything to > > manage mrsas drives/volumes/firmware from inside FreeBSD (adding arr= ays, > > monitoring drives etc)? > > >=20 > Yep, you will. However you may install megacli=20 Not meant for humans, really. Its interface and commands were designed by some space aliens. > or stocli from ports. In the current configuration, storcli does not see my mfi controller. Maybe it will see after switching to mrsas, but I doubt. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJdo05CAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0eZEH/1lBjOAT8Sj0bGNlTWLZchCV hAIUIfPsTJGjXkgFUQBhdgiQVigQoFlRZ+jSItYAVk3qCWGQeJZ84a285ffxqvYC ExQkYGqhHZsmmd6S5NGSsanfQrpLjweHpdQe9T953ZJWUE/irJ4mJzQ3RcSANTqY W+iw9LP5l8oCBtL8pbSE0V+GD9XKrS2J1Un78zVUbS6Z/Zh9m1W8uEay+C1u13bY 7+CCBrC3kH/u6i/vVMclEBCwpGDDKgh65/G43GNFFAwYdNsV62YS1CDr1o6nUHkY 9sRfnIQQKmcdmxyNqrdQL4TfLPvVXs6LqlZOoAxTvPX87OkoksWr5ku/r5aAlcs= =eu9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--