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Cc: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID
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> You can make ZFS work on i386, but it requires very careful tuning and is not
> going to work brilliantly well for particularly large or high-throughput
> filesystems.

you mean "high transfer" like reading/writing huge files. anyway not 
faster than properly configured UFS+maybe gstripe/gmirror.

for small files it's only fast when they will fit in cache, same with UFS