On 08/25/2012 04:26 AM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > Would, say, a scrub cause that kind of bus contention, and trigger the > bad behavior? That would be rather problematic for ZFS if you > couldn't even scrub your pool without devices dropping. I ask because > I built a storage system with SATA on LSI HBAs, luckily went with > direct connection without knowing about the SATA on SAS expander > issue, but was planning on using cascading expanders if more storage > was needed.
It's hard to tell for sure, I wouldn't want to be an armchair expert that pulls things out of their behind. I don't have a pure SAS HBA with SATA disks build at the moment, so there's no way I can test it. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
