ZFS .. on PowerPC ?

[Niels S. Eliasen]

Hi Peter, Marcel
Den 19/09/2008 kl. 02.28 skrev Peter Grehan:

> Hi Marcel,
>
>> ZFS requires 64-bit atomic operations, which
>> PowerPC doesn't have. So, we can't build the
>> ZFS kernel module. That's probably why you
>> get the error...
>
> Pjd has a workaround for non-LP64 systems in
>
>    cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_atomic.c
>
> .. that funnel all 64-bit atomic ops through a single mutex. Not  
> particularly efficient but it should still work. Unless I'm missing  
> some other code paths here.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.


Sounds like a good thing ....
Is this possible to do for a non-progamming guy.... in other  
(layman's) words ... is there a howto for this ?


kind regards

nse

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