Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:44:54 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and PAE Message-ID: <54D4EDDA-5956-4A77-AB59-12BC0A23E4D3@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <47B029A4.1070702@FreeBSD.org> References: <C95BFBAD-6E1B-4AD2-9384-0DF479C61B64@ish.com.au> <47B029A4.1070702@FreeBSD.org>
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On 11/02/2008, at 9:55 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> Given the high memory usage requirements of ZFS, I'd like to load >> up servers using it with as much memory as I can. More than 4Gb of >> memory on older 32bit CPUs. Since PAE doesn't play with loadable >> kernel modules, is there a way to compile ZFS into the kernel >> itself (if I tick a box that says I know that licensing issues >> exist)? > > PAE does work with kernel modules, and ZFS works fine. That is great news. Does that mean that the text [1] "KLD modules cannot be loaded into a PAE enabled kernel, due to the differences in the build framework of a module and the kernel." is wrong or that I've misunderstood what it means? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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