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At Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:40:16 +0100,
Andreas Rudisch wrote:
> You can use 7.1-RELEASE-i386 (32bit) or 7.1-RELEASE-amd64 (64bit)
> depending on whether or not you are going to run 64 bit software or
> want to use more than 4GB of RAM.

i would also recommend to use fbsd amd64 if you plan to use zfs. even 
if you do not have more than 4gb of memory installed in your system.

see

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide

hth,
toni
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