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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 10:48:27 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID
Message-ID:  <200905271048.27837.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271651550.52163@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:52:42 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > ZFS should work on i386.  As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs
> > that are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to
> > learn

> unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write program
> in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode.

Wojciech, I have to ask: are you actually a programmer or are you repeating 
things you've read elsewhere?  I can think of a whole list of reasons why code 
written to target a 64-bit system would be non-trivial to port to 32-bit, 
particularly if performance is an issue.
-- 
Kirk Strauser



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