Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:43:10 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Cc: Anders Gulden Olstad <andersgo@anduin.net>, Eirik =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Subject: Re: ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64 Message-ID: <200802281543.10282.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7EBEF61E-545B-4F8C-A3D8-CD387FCF9E58@anduin.net> References: <BAY115-W180A4265C01744EB8656B8D1390@phx.gbl> <200802281139.14494.jhb@freebsd.org> <7EBEF61E-545B-4F8C-A3D8-CD387FCF9E58@anduin.net>
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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
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