7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
3:57 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:33 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
I just tried a bunch of combinations on a 3 x 11 raid60 configuration plus 3 global hotspares, and decided that letting the controller (LSI 9260-8i MegaSAS2) do it was easier all the way around. of course, with other controllerrs, your mileage may vary. and yes, megacli64 is an ugly tool to tame.
Some controllers are better.
Software based stripes do allow you to span RAID controllers though which provides a lot of flexibility.
When I do do software striping I do it within LVM instead of creating a RAID0 as I found it easier to manage long term.
-Ross