[illumos-Developer] Webrev: New ARECA arcmsr driver

[Garrett D'Amore]

Sadly, the Areca CLI *doesn't* work reasonably well.  I'm concerned
about my ability to even begin to support this closed code.  There are
some architectural concerns in this code as well.

	- Garrett

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 09:36 -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:13:59PM -0700, Chad Cantwell wrote:
> > If by eliminating the CLI bypass logic you mean eliminating support for the CLI
> > entirely, I don't think that is a good idea.  I haven't used the 1880, but in
> > the 1240/60/80ML models with onboard NICs, the NIC was not a replacement for
> > the CLI.  It let you have console bios access via telnet, and a web interface,
> > both which eased administration but neither which replaced all the CLI
> > functionality.  Also, there is a lot you can do with the CLI to automate
> > administration tasks in cron jobs which would be much more difficult using
> > only the onboard NIC.
> 
> I must agree.  We purchase servers with the LSI RAID controller card
> in preference to the Adaptec card because the `raidctl' CLI works
> reasonably well from the host OS.  We have monitoring software that
> uses the CLI to check the status of the disks periodically.  (Most of
> the time it says `Optimal').  As well, disk replacement should be done
> on the live system, rather than rebooting to get the BIOS utility.
> This requires the CLI.
>