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On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:44:01AM -0700, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> In your experience, which SAS/SATA RAID controllers are best behaved in 
> terms of policies and reporting things like io_opt and 
> writeback/writethrough to the kernel?

I never had actually good experiences with any of them.  That being
said I also haven't used one for years.  For SAS or SATA attachd to
expanders setups I've mostly used the mpt2/3 family of controllers
which are doing okay.