From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 22:06:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B05106566B for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209FB8FC22 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.8s) with ESMTP id 233747096-1834499 for multiple; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:04:58 -0500 Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1SM6pKu049938; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:06:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:43:10 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802281139.14494.jhb@freebsd.org> <7EBEF61E-545B-4F8C-A3D8-CD387FCF9E58@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <7EBEF61E-545B-4F8C-A3D8-CD387FCF9E58@anduin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802281543.10282.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:06:52 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/6030/Thu Feb 28 14:36:36 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Anders Gulden Olstad , Eirik =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8verby?= Subject: Re: ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:06:56 -0000 On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:49:47 pm Eirik =D8verby wrote: > On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:39 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 07:13:28 am Brian Hechinger wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:01:52PM +0100, Anders Olstad wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> > >>> Will the zfs module be installed by default in the 7.0-RELEASE - =20 > >>> or is > >>> a manual operation required still? > >> > >> It's installed by default on 7.0-RC2, so it's pretty likely that it =20 > >> will > >> be included in RELEASE. > >> > >> wonko@wintermute$ uname -a > >> FreeBSD wintermute 7.0-RC2 FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 #0: Fri Feb 8 00:09:57 =20 > >> UTC 2008 > > root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > That is an i386 machine. It doesn't appear that zfs.ko is enabled =20 > > currently > > on sparc64 in RELENG_7 and thus in 7.0. >=20 > Hi, >=20 > why is that? We have used it for some time now on a fairly heavily-=20 > loaded Ultra 2 machine, utilizing a fairly large part of the ZFS =20 > featureset (mirroring, striping, quotas and limits, mountpoints left =20 > right and centre, etc.), and found it to be completely stable. We have =20 > either not (yet) encountered any sparc64-specific edge cases, or there =20 > are none (always the hopeless optimist)... >=20 > Given that we reported this back in the RC1 days, I'm surprised it's =20 > not in.. ;) Then again, we opened no PR. Should we? E-mail pjd@ and ask to have it turned on. It probably wasn't on b/c he had= n't=20 tested it on sparc64 and was just being conservative. =2D-=20 John Baldwin