From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 20 21:43:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D0095A for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wynkoop@wynn.com) Received: from mail.wynn.com (wa3yre.wynn.com [199.89.147.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F7F900 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ivory.wynn.com (mail.wynn.com [199.89.147.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.wynn.com (8.14.3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id r1KLhldp070132; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:43:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wynkoop@wynn.com) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:43:46 -0500 From: Brett Wynkoop To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: zfs on arm Message-ID: <20130220164346.6f70c2e1@ivory.wynn.com> In-Reply-To: <3B5DE103-7042-4FBE-B883-2856E73BFE6E@bsdimp.com> References: <20130220134556.3499369c@ivory.wynn.com> <20130220202537.705decddfaa2b4a495dc5e1d@sohara.org> <20130220153519.7626984a@ivory.wynn.com> <3B5DE103-7042-4FBE-B883-2856E73BFE6E@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:43:50 -0000 On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:11:05 -0700 Warner Losh wrote: > I've done this on x86 with 640MB, but it requires a lot of hand > tuning. You should be able to build the kernel (most likely the > OPENSOLARIS issue is just moving from options.* to options, mostly), > but you'll encounter resource starvation issues until the tuning is > right. :( But that was in the 7.x timeframe, iirc, and that was so > many ZFS revisions ago... > > Warner > Warner- I am not sure what you are telling me to do to get the kernel to build. I agree that it should work better than in the 7.x days. I have brought up zfs on x86 with 512M already and gotten it stable. -Brett -- wynkoop@wynn.com http://prd4.wynn.com/wynkoop/pgp-keys.txt 917-642-6925 718-717-5435 April 19, 1775 An English attempt to confiscate guns from Americans triggered a successful revolution...... Dear Congress, that's a hint.