Last I had heard, there was no solaris support for port multipliers yet, but I believe that they plan on supporting it in the future. That said, I think that the FreeBSD port fully supports it now as well as FUSE on Linux. This isn't really a zfs issue, but more of a driver issue.
The other thing to mention is that you can pick up an 8 port sata card for like 100 bucks. That is what I did and managed to find an 8 bay external enclosure, and connected everything with simple converters that took 8 SATA2 cables down to 2 infiniband cables. This kept things fairly clean outside of the boxes and allowed for full bandwidth to all drives. The cabling and case set me back like 200 bucks, so it came in about the same as a port multiplier setup in terms of costs - and I expect that I have higher IO bandwidth this way. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
