Re: sacrifice H310 hardware r5 for lvm2 raid5+lvmcache

lejeczek <[email protected]>
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but would OMSA do it and without re-flashing the firmware? 
Or LSI's tool set is needed?

On 27/07/15 14:21, Paul Raines wrote:
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> I cannot comment on the issue of using the hardware RAID5 
> or not. However, I will say from experience that 1-disk 
> virtual disks are bad idea.  If you are doing that, you 
> should put the disks in JBOD mode instead. Doing a 1-disk 
> vdisk just puts an unnecessarily layer on top of disk I/O 
> that gives a added failure mode for no purpose.
>
> -- Paul Raines (http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
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> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 3:48am, lejeczek wrote:
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>> what do you think?
>>
>> dump raid5? change each pdisk into vdisk exposing to OS and
>> instead run lvm raid5 on those vdisks with a cache device?
>>
>> thanks.
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