Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 23:18:10 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: Oleg Cherkasov <o1e9.cherkasov@yandex.com>, 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> In-Reply-To: <345141570904068@vla1-2bebf6b1c06e.qloud-c.yandex.net> References: <334581570903892@vla5-a97816db28ca.qloud-c.yandex.net> <345141570904068@vla1-2bebf6b1c06e.qloud-c.yandex.net>
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--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--
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