[CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

Thu Jan 14 20:14:52 UTC 2010
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 01/12/2010 03:51 PM, nate wrote:
> I've used HP/cciss on a couple hundred systems over the past 7 years,
> can only recall 2 issues, both around a drive failing the controller
> didn't force the drive off line, and there was no way to force it
> off line using the command line tool, so had to go on site and physically
> yank the drive. With the failing drive still in the array performance
> tanked.

I've had 2 issues today on a single machine - controller going readonly 
with the assumption that a disk had failed, looking at the cli stats and 
it actually showed all 6 disks in the dl380 G4 to be fine.

I accept these are not new machines, and have a few years under their 
belt - but we've got similar aged kit from other places which doesnt 
have nearly as many issues.

>
> I've never used SATA on cciss, that could be a cause of issues.

Were all scsi here.

Maybe its just bad luck here :)


- KB