Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:39:20 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: "Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS ?? Message-ID: <4C179098.1070602@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7C50FEBD-2B0E-4E6C-A4BA-64D76422C19B@delfi-konsult.com>
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Niels S. Eliasen wrote: > hi > just wondered if thee is any chance of getting ZFS running on freebsd-ppc ?? > Unlikely on 32-bit PPC systems. ZFS requires a lot of KVA, which is limited on ppc32, and also requires 64-bit atomics, which are not available except through some slow backup code that uses a mutex. ZFS will work on ppc64, however, where both these problems are alleviated. -Nathanhome | help
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