From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 00:44:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711CB16A419 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B8813C447 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from ip-182.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.182]) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1JOjKl-00007J-SO; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:49:15 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <47B029A4.1070702@FreeBSD.org> References: <47B029A4.1070702@FreeBSD.org> Message-Id: <54D4EDDA-5956-4A77-AB59-12BC0A23E4D3@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:44:54 +1100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and PAE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:44:57 -0000 On 11/02/2008, at 9:55 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> Given the high memory usage requirements of ZFS, I'd like to load >> up servers using it with as much memory as I can. More than 4Gb of >> memory on older 32bit CPUs. Since PAE doesn't play with loadable >> kernel modules, is there a way to compile ZFS into the kernel >> itself (if I tick a box that says I know that licensing issues >> exist)? > > PAE does work with kernel modules, and ZFS works fine. That is great news. Does that mean that the text [1] "KLD modules cannot be loaded into a PAE enabled kernel, due to the differences in the build framework of a module and the kernel." is wrong or that I've misunderstood what it means? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A