ZFS ??

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 15 14:39:22 UTC 2010


Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
> hi
> just wondered if thee is any chance of getting ZFS running on freebsd-ppc ??
>   
Unlikely on 32-bit PPC systems. ZFS requires a lot of KVA, which is 
limited on ppc32, and also requires 64-bit atomics, which are not 
available except through some slow backup code that uses a mutex. ZFS 
will work on ppc64, however, where both these problems are alleviated.
-Nathan


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