When will ZFS become stable?

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:58:47PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>  > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Let try to think how we can warn people clearly about proper tunning and
>  > > what proper tunning actually means. I think we should advise increasing
>  > > KVA_PAGES on i386 and not only vm.kmem_size. We could also warn that
>  > > running ZFS on 32bit systems is not generally recommended. Any other
>  > > suggestions?
>  > 
>  > I'd suggest we do give all three warnings (KVA_PAGES, kmem_size, i386)
>  > at once, preferably both when the ZFS module loads and when a zpool is
>  > created. I think it's important that the tree pieces of information be
>  > given at the same time so the user doesn't need to hunt solutions
>  > after panics.
> 
> How about including the URL of the ZFS tuning guide in the
> warning message:
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
> 
> It contains all the necessary information for both i386 and
> amd64 machines.  It can also easily be updated if necessary
> so people always get the most up-to-date information.
> 

The tuning information belongs in the zfs(8) manual page.

-- 
Steve