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Subject: Re: ZFS .. on PowerPC ?
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Hi Niels,

> Is this possible to do for a non-progamming guy.... in other (layman's) 
> words ... is there a howto for this ?

  Not yet since you are the trailblazer :)

  I just verified that the zfs and opensolaris kernel modules build fine 
on powerpc. You could manually build them, load zfs, and then see how it 
goes (if it gets that far).

later,

Peter.