From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 14:52:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A5C106570C for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716748FC20 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4REqg1E052274; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:52:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n4REqgpY052271; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:52:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:52:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <4A1CD688.4020604@infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <4A1AA3DC.5020300@network-i.net> <200905261238.52979.kirk@strauser.com><70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793ED91@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <4A1C3725.8040509@infracaninophile.co.uk> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793ED94@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <4A1CD688.4020604@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Gary Gatten , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:51 -0000 > ZFS should work on i386. As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs that > are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to learn unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write program in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode.