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i love my zfs setup if it was anything else it would have been hosed. On my Dell perc 5i I set each drive as its own vdev so the OS saw each vdev appears as a drive. then zfs assembles it all. I get the benefits of the perc card and the percs of the operating system. I trust ntfs about as much...

did you make the raid on the card then try to make it in in os? for me with my dell card I had to make each drive its own vdev then os saw each drive and i made the zfs partition.

Actually I fixed the problem. Somehow HBA got borked and marked a drive as foreign. after a bit of research I discovered the option to import from the hba bios and it put the drive back to normal. I boot the system up and OI automatically started reslivering life is good again.

Decided to remove the mirrored SSD ZiL and add them to the Cache so now 5 SSD for cache and should make the c4t3d0 and c4t4d0 last much longer. I am jumping system up to 32gb this weekend so shouldn't really need the zil

This may be lengthy. Short story we had a storm while i was at work I called wife and walked her through powering down my servers over the phone when she got to my openindiana/napp-it server under shutdown she chose the Red option "Emergency Shutdown"! when i got home to power on server and...

You should mirror your log drive for safety purposes cache doesn't need mirroring but logs should be mirrors.

Sort of on the same subject. SSD wasted space. I recently install Openindiana with nappit. I included a 128gb SSD for caching and the system is only using 2gb of this drive it seems like a huge waste of space. What are my options to get more bang for the buck out of this SSD? Can i put the OS...