Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:20:24 -0500 (EST) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuration choices with Dell CERC (adaptec 2610SA) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511280018390.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <20051126231119.GA43846@nargothrond.kdm.org>
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > It would be better to let the rebuild happen as fast as possible. Disks > > > have a bad habit of failing in groups, and you don't want to increase > > > the chance of a multi-disk failure by making recovery slow. > > > > So again ... only using mirrors ... and in a two-drive chassis, I can't > > have a hot spare, so I am not sure if it even really matters what I set > > that to ... comments ? > > If you only have a two drive chassis, your best bet is to replace a failed > drive as soon as you can and let the rebuild complete as soon as you can. This Dell CERC (adaptec 2610sa) is the first card I have seen with this rebuild-priority setting. Out of curiosity, of the three choices I have (low medium high), which choice approximates the behavior that the older cards (PERCs, etc.) had that _did not_ give you this choice ? Thanks so much for your (and everyone elses) great comments on this thread.
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