[Gluster-users] Should hardware raid vendor tools be turned off?

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On 22.02.2014 14:51, Khoi Mai wrote:
> As of recently I've been getting alot of split brain scenarios in my 4
> distri-replic. brick gluster environment.
> 
> From the system logs I glanced over and saw this message regarding the
> vendor's raid feature.
> 
> [root at omhq1b4f ~]# grep -i patrol /var/log/messages
> Feb 21 07:05:07 omhq1b4f Server Administrator: Storage Service 
> EventID:
> 2242  The Patrol Read has started.:  Controller 0 (PERC H710 Mini)
> Feb 21 15:57:19 omhq1b4f Server Administrator: Storage Service 
> EventID:
> 2243  The Patrol Read has stopped.:  Controller 0 (PERC H710 
> Mini)Server
> Adminis
> trator: Storage Service EventID: 2243  The Patrol Read has stopped.:
> Controller 0 (PERC H710 Mini)
> 
> Is the community consensus to turn off all vendor raid feature added
> tools?

RAID is useful, some use it, some not, depends from case to case. I for 
one host my bricks on one big RAID6 (also lsi, it can be stupid at 
times, like switching from write-back to write-through in some scenarios 
and hitting me hard performance-wise).

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