ZFS on Hardware RAID

[andy thomas]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Steven Hartland wrote:

> On 22/01/2019 15:34, Borja Marcos wrote:
>> 
>>> As you say its quite confusing, so hope that clarifies?
>> I think so, I was trying to avoid confusion for newcomers, not intending to 
>> be fastidious. The JBOD term is ambiguous. This stuff drove me mad some 
>> time ago, not
>> to mention the puzzled faces of the Dell salesmen when I said ?EGGS, BACON, 
>> RAID, RAID, RAID, I DON?T LIKE RAID!? ;)
>> 
>> They thought I was nuts rejecting a ?hardware? RAID. And in some cases they 
>> almost refuse to sell servers with plain HBAs.
>> 
> Oh had that too, they literally had no clue ;-)

I had that too - in one of my other employments we buy loads of stuff from 
Dell and our account managers always used to be incredulous if we didn't 
want a hardware RAID controller. But this was a few years ago when most 
people buying servers wanted them for Windows Server use, not Linux or 
*BSD. Now RAID doesn't even come into the pre-sales talk anymore - whether 
it's because they're more aware of O/S's that do software RAID, or because 
most Dell HBAs now support JBOD/pass-thru or just because they know we've 
no intention of running Windows on their servers, I don't know.

Andy