ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64

[Anders Gulden Olstad]

Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:38:16AM +0100, Eirik verby wrote:

>> After csup'ing to 7-RC1-something, and brute-force-compiling ZFS, we  
>> used the external A1000 SCSI disk "shelf" with 12x18gb drives to  
>> create a zpool and a bunch of ZFS filesystems. Since then, we've  
>> integrated ZFS quotas and limits with the jails (growing in  
>> numbers..), without incident so far.
>>
>> We've added another A1000 disk shelf that we'll probably set up as a  
>> mirror of the current one, again using the z* tools.

There are some problems with the other A1000 cabinet, which totally
freezes the poor Ultra2, when running a mirrored diskpool. Not even
signs of life on the serial console, so I think this is hardware
related. I'll keep that cabinet out of the testbed until I've
investigated the hardware further.

But on the other A1000 cabinet ZFS is running very happily.

> Could you please give a zfs.ko built with the patch at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/zfs_atomic_sparc64.diff
> a try? In theory it should improve performance by not letting
> the OpenSolaris compat code work around the lack of some atomic
> operations.

Sure. I can try to benchmark it quickly with iostat.

>> Oh and Landon Fuller has been kind enough to spend a few days  
>> compiling Java 1.6 for FreeBSD on the machine, so I believe (his  
>> words) we are now running the worlds first Java-enabled FreeBSD/Sparc64.
>>
> 
> Could you please work with glewis@ to integrate the required
> changes into the port?

Send me an email if someone need access to the java building jail.

Anders

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