ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:49:47 pm Eirik Øverby wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:39 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 28 February 2008 07:13:28 am Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:01:52PM +0100, Anders Olstad wrote:
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> Will the zfs module be installed by default in the 7.0-RELEASE -  
> >>> or is
> >>> a manual operation required still?
> >>
> >> It's installed by default on 7.0-RC2, so it's pretty likely that it  
> >> will
> >> be included in RELEASE.
> >>
> >> wonko at wintermute$ uname -a
> >> FreeBSD wintermute 7.0-RC2 FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 #0: Fri Feb  8 00:09:57  
> >> UTC 2008
> > root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >
> > That is an i386 machine.  It doesn't appear that zfs.ko is enabled  
> > currently
> > on sparc64 in RELENG_7 and thus in 7.0.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> why is that? We have used it for some time now on a fairly heavily- 
> loaded Ultra 2 machine, utilizing a fairly large part of the ZFS  
> featureset (mirroring, striping, quotas and limits, mountpoints left  
> right and centre, etc.), and found it to be completely stable. We have  
> either not (yet) encountered any sparc64-specific edge cases, or there  
> are none (always the hopeless optimist)...
> 
> Given that we reported this back in the RC1 days, I'm surprised it's  
> not in.. ;) Then again, we opened no PR. Should we?

E-mail pjd@ and ask to have it turned on.  It probably wasn't on b/c he hadn't 
tested it on sparc64 and was just being conservative.

-- 
John Baldwin