From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 15 16:11:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5157F106568D; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2568D8FC0C; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ice.local ([10.0.0.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n8FGBgjg016995 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <4AAFBCBE.6000002@errno.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:11:42 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <200909151134.n8FBYr8F086888@svn.freebsd.org> <4AAF944F.1040209@errno.com> <20090915150047.GA2199@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20090915150047.GA2199@garage.freebsd.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-x.dcc-servers-Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r197218 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:43 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:19:11AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >>> Author: pjd >>> Date: Tue Sep 15 11:34:53 2009 >>> New Revision: 197218 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197218 >>> >>> Log: >>> We believe ZFS is ready for production use. Remove a warning about it >>> being >>> experimental. :) >> This is great news! Is this amd64 only (or i386 too)? How about >> non-x86 architectures (have people tested on sparc64, ppc, etc)? > > I do most of my tests on i386 with 1GB of RAM. It isn't optimal hardware > configuration for ZFS, but it seems to work fine in most cases. For the > other archs I think I tried sparc64 in the past and Marcel committed > some fixes so it can work on ia64. When it comes to powerpc, arm, mips, > etc. I haven't done any testing and I wouldn't recommend ZFS for those > archs anyway. We should probably also warn about that. > Thank you for the explanation. ppc has support for Xserve if I recall (or perhaps in process); that should be suitable. I was mostly trying to understand which arch's zfs has been successfully deployed on. Sam