Constant minor ZFS corruption

[Chris Forgeron]

How big are your pools? I've never had one under 6 TB, which could be my problems.. or that it's been years since I've tried i386 for anything other than a firewall. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:Alexander at Leidinger.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:00 AM
To: Chris Forgeron
Cc: Stephen McKay; Mark Felder; freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Constant minor ZFS corruption

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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