From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 05:00:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D432616A469 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A71A13C468 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from ip-182.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.182]) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1JOQqV-00044n-5z; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:04:47 +1100 Message-Id: From: Aristedes Maniatis To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:34 +1100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Subject: ZFS and PAE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:36 -0000 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)? Cheers 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