From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 15:48:33 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 BA55410656C3 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782268FC1E for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107901FB06 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 10:48:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ET8K8UI5QIqn for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 10:48:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from athena.localnet (athena.daycos.com [IPv6:2001:470:c054:1:221:9bff:fe00:de3f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C2E451FAFF for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 10:48:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:48:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A1AA3DC.5020300@network-i.net> <4A1CD688.4020604@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905271048.27837.kirk@strauser.com> 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 15:48:34 -0000 On Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:52:42 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 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. Wojciech, I have to ask: are you actually a programmer or are you repeating things you've read elsewhere? I can think of a whole list of reasons why code written to target a 64-bit system would be non-trivial to port to 32-bit, particularly if performance is an issue. -- Kirk Strauser