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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:12:33 +0300
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE (raid	5 2TB)
Message-ID:  <69509118@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <013c01c74a95$ca217000$0c00a8c0@Artem> (Artem Kuchin's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:17 %2B0300")
References:  <001d01c74a27$25afd9d0$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45C8E96C.4030902@antiszoc.hu> <004401c74a4b$8072fa90$0c00a8c0@Artem> <21342944@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <013c01c74a95$ca217000$0c00a8c0@Artem>

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:17 +0300 Artem Kuchin wrote:

> "There may be some issues with 64-bit cleanliness in some
> (particularly older) drivers. Generally, drivers that already function
> correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work.
> FreeBSD/amd64 is a very young platform on FreeBSD. While the core
> FreeBSD kernel and base system components are generally fairly robust,
> there are likely to still be rough edges, particularly with third
> party packages."

> scares me. Do you really think it is better than PAE?

Yes. It's very good and stable as a server platform. I use even
7-current-amd64 as a platform to create packages for 4.x -- 7.x for
more than half a year now.

There may be some issues as a workstation though (i.e. no drivers for
nVidia cards etc.).


WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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