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> References: <4A1AA3DC.5020300@network-i.net> <4A1CD688.4020604@infracaninophile.co.uk> <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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