svn commit: r197218 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs

[Sam Leffler]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:19:11AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>> Author: pjd
>>> Date: Tue Sep 15 11:34:53 2009
>>> New Revision: 197218
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197218
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>  We believe ZFS is ready for production use. Remove a warning about it 
>>>  being
>>>  experimental. :)
>> This is great news!  Is this amd64 only (or i386 too)?  How about 
>> non-x86 architectures (have people tested on sparc64, ppc, etc)?
> 
> I do most of my tests on i386 with 1GB of RAM. It isn't optimal hardware
> configuration for ZFS, but it seems to work fine in most cases. For the
> other archs I think I tried sparc64 in the past and Marcel committed
> some fixes so it can work on ia64. When it comes to powerpc, arm, mips,
> etc. I haven't done any testing and I wouldn't recommend ZFS for those
> archs anyway. We should probably also warn about that.
> 

Thank you for the explanation. ppc has support for Xserve if I recall 
(or perhaps in process); that should be suitable.  I was mostly trying 
to understand which arch's zfs has been successfully deployed on.

	Sam