Constant minor ZFS corruption

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Chris Forgeron <cforgeron at acsi.ca> (from Tue, 15 Mar 2011  
10:04:57 -0300):

> How big are your pools? I've never had one under 6 TB, which could  
> be my problems.. or that it's been years since I've tried i386 for  
> anything other than a firewall.

All of my pools on i386 are less than a TB. Not everyone needs that much data.

BTW: We prefer to not see top-post quotaing style on this list.

Bye,
Alexander.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:Alexander at Leidinger.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: Chris Forgeron
> Cc: Stephen McKay; Mark Felder; freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Constant minor ZFS corruption
>
> Quoting Chris Forgeron <cforgeron at acsi.ca> (from Thu, 10 Mar 2011
> 16:43:43 -0400):
>
>> Oh - and you're AMD64, correct, not i386? I think we (royal we) should
>> remove support for i385 in ZFS, it has never been stable for me, and I
>> see a lot of grief about it on the boards.  I also think you need 8 GB
>> of RAM to play seriously. I've had reasonable success with 4GB and a
>> light load, but any serious file traffic needs 8GB of breathing room
>> as ZFS gobbles up the RAM in a very aggressive manner.
>
> Veto! I have two x86 machines, one with "only" 768 MB RAM. Both of  
> them run with ZFS without problems. The scenario I use them in may  
> not be the scenario you need to provide a machine for, but there are  
> scenarios where ZFS on x86 works.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
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