ZFS with 32-bit, non-x86 kernel

[Justin Hibbits]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:06:52 -0400
Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 10/4/19 10:05 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone use ZFS with a 32-bit kernel, that is also not i386 ?
> > If you do, could you please let me know?  Along with uname -rmp
> > output. Thank you!
> >   
> 
> I don't know if that has even been attempted by anyone. The ZIL and
> ZFS log comonents require substantial amounts of memory and I am not
> aware of anyone with arm devices that have 8GB+ of memory. I have had
> FreeBSD current on RISC-V running fairly well with ZFS however that
> was a purely rv64imafdc architecture.
> 
> I will watch this thread with curiosity.
> 
> 

I did try using ZFS on 32-bit powerpc (8GB RAM), and even got a bugfix
pushed into the ZFS/Illumos repo for it, but it was too unstable to be
usable.  I'd love to try again later though.

- Justin