Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:47:09 -0500 From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386? Message-ID: <20080107174709.5afb7f7c@kan.dnsalias.net> In-Reply-To: <200801071807.04093.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> References: <fll63b$j1c$1@ger.gmane.org> <47814EAB.70405@FreeBSD.org> <70e8236f0801070652i35643585k9ca5d55125d55ce9@mail.gmail.com> <200801071807.04093.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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--Sig_/Eyf8Bt6jEcC9WNhU3WZF3_c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:06:55 +0100 Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote: > > That's it on my loader.conf and for months now I haven't seen a > > panic. Why should I or anyone else happilly running ZFS on i386 be > > denied of doing so? >=20 > 100% agreement. >=20 > If you want to go to extremes, require the user to put=20 > zfs.zfs.run_on_32_bit_and_i_understand_i_am_an_idiot_and_this_is_not_reco= mmended=3D1=20 > in loader.conf, or else have the kernel panic by design on boot. >=20 > But don't make it totally impossible without patching the source, > *please*. >=20 > Obviously the exception is if development for i386 stops such that it > actually does not work. But disallowing it for artificial reasons... > please leave things like that to proprietary hardware/software > vendors trying to squeeze money of out consumers, and leave it out of > a free operation system. >=20 Just a note to put another '100% agreement' sign up. We have plenty of other FSes which are half-cooked and can easily hurt people, but nobody suggests removing them. Why ZFS should be singled out, it is in a way better shape than most of them. --=20 Alexander Kabaev --Sig_/Eyf8Bt6jEcC9WNhU3WZF3_c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHgqvtQ6z1jMm+XZYRAs4uAJ9uWJyj1Efpv7MJ8NVcpRyScdM/DACg6+I+ QAfWxADjYpYVn017axq0ePk= =rwrR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Eyf8Bt6jEcC9WNhU3WZF3_c--
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