[OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

[Robin Axelsson]

For what I know they are supposed to be transparent to the operating
system/drivers but I can also testify that they have been nothing but 
problems for me too.


On 2011-01-17 19:20, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
>  Are port expanders supported and stable? It's been a few years but last time I tried using them I ran into all kinds of timing and io problems. When I looked deeper it seemed common wisdom was to avoid them, and I hadn't seen that change when I checked back again. This was on solaris 10 and open solaris.
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>  ----- Reply message -----
>  From: "William David OpenIndiana"<oilists at biosystems.ath.cx>
>  Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 9:10 am
>  Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)
>  To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
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>  Hi
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>  You can try a port expander 5 in 1 sata  for internal drives and reallocate more sata to esata bracket