[TriLUG] ZFS and hardware raid question

Michael Rothwell michael at rothwell.us
Mon Jan 7 18:16:48 EST 2013


Yes. ZFS should have direct access to the disks for best results.
On Jan 7, 2013 5:55 PM, "Craig Isdahl" <craig at isdahl.com> wrote:

> All -
>
> Planning to play with FreeNAS and ZFS later this week and have a question
> for some of you experts.
>
> My test box is a Dell 2950 w/ 6 drives, dual quad core and 16GB ram.  My
> question is about hardware raid.  From what I've read I shouldn't use the
> hardware raid at all, right?  Just use the disks as separate devices (i.e.
> let ZFS see 6 disks) then setup Raid-z2 and ZFS handles everything.  Is
> that correct?
>
> Thanks!
> -- Craig
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