Known issues with ZFS on ICH10R (Intel G45)?

[Maggi Federico]

Hello,
    I am about to buy a mITX board to build a SOHO, ZFS-based NAS (RAID-Z). My board of choice is the Intel DG45FC [1], mainly because it has 4 SATA ports and Intel gigabit NIC.

My only concern is the ICH10R SATA RAID controller. I've read that ZFS likes full access to the disks, and that built-in RAID systems (even if disabled) may lead to poor performances or, worst, errors.

This said, my questions are:

    1) does anyone have any experience with this board (or at least wit the ICH10R SATA controller) and ZFS? If not, based on the current status of the FreeBSD kernel, should I expect issues?

    2) do you have experiences with other mITX boards that are known to work well in terms of ZFS?

Thanks in advance. Cheerio,
-Fede

[1] http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15992/eng/DG45FC_ProductGuide01_English.pdf