Constant minor ZFS corruption
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Mar 11 14:01:01 UTC 2011
Quoting Chris Forgeron <cforgeron at acsi.ca> (from Thu, 10 Mar 2011
16:43:43 -0400):
> Oh - and you're AMD64, correct, not i386? I think we (royal we)
> should remove support for i385 in ZFS, it has never been stable for
> me, and I see a lot of grief about it on the boards. I also think
> you need 8 GB of RAM to play seriously. I've had reasonable success
> with 4GB and a light load, but any serious file traffic needs 8GB of
> breathing room as ZFS gobbles up the RAM in a very aggressive manner.
Veto! I have two x86 machines, one with "only" 768 MB RAM. Both of
them run with ZFS without problems. The scenario I use them in may not
be the scenario you need to provide a machine for, but there are
scenarios where ZFS on x86 works.
Bye,
Alexander.
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