[TriLUG] B320i RAID controller driver

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

Joe,

Interesting article, thank you for sharing.

I ended up configuring the four 300GB disks as two mirrors. I mounted 
/home on one of  them and everything else on the other.  I figure that 
600 GB is more than enough for my uses and a redundant disk will help 
increase uptime, which is important.

After I disabled the built in 320i controller the system was able to see 
all the disks natively using the AHCI driver.

Last Friday, I got a copy of Suse 15 installed on the system. Decided to 
give Suse a try this time and we will see how it goes as some 
distributions seem to be funny with Samba + Kerberos which is necessary 
to connect it to the domain controllers for authentication.  I will 
start hardening and configuring the system starting tomorrow.

What started me down this path was Python 2.7 going EOL which the 
RH/Centos 7 is / was highly dependant upon. It made getting newer 
packages almost impossible.

On a side note, the ending of Python 2.7 and going to 3.7 has been a 
real pain the rear end in terms of updating my Gentoo system as 
everything - as in all the packages -- need to be rebuilt against the 
newer python and that requires the maintainers to update everything, 
which is a daunting task and one that often times puts you in circular 
dependency situations.

As one poster put it in the forum, "I am beginning to really hate python".

On 5/30/20 8:34 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2020, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
>
>>> A coworker says that he likes RAID 6.
>>
>> everyone (well the people who can't have downtime, or data failures) 
>> likes RAID 6.
>
> I just found out this is wrong. Here's why you shouldn't RAID anymore 
> (anymore started in 2015). Instead just mirror.
>
> It's from Jim Salter, who talked to us about ZFS about Sep 2018
>
> https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs-not-raidz/
>
> Joe
>