Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:09:57 +1100 From: Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When will ZFS become stable? Message-ID: <47960745.3050409@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080106170452.L105@fledge.watson.org> References: <fll63b$j1c$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080106141157.I105@fledge.watson.org> <flr0np$euj$2@ger.gmane.org> <20080106170452.L105@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: >... One advantage > Solaris has is that it runs primarily on expensive 64-bit servers with > lots of memory. Part of the problem on FreeBSD is that people run ZFS > on sytems with 32-bit CPUs and a lot less memory. It could be that ZFS > should be enforcing higher minimum hardware requirements to mount (i.e., > refusing to run on systems with 32-bit address spaces or <4gb of memory > and inadequate tuning). Before ZFS was released, I was using it internally on a 32bit desktop. It never panic'd although it did get very slow after a while because of the way it managed memory (and probably some bugs :) while in early alpha/beta. At work I run it on my Ultra20 desktop with Solaris 10. It has an AMD64 CPU and I'm pretty only 2GB of RAM, but I'll have to check on the RAM. Darrenhome | help
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