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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:10:46 -0700
From:      Louis Kowolowski <louisk@cryptomonkeys.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <20070411231045.GC1726@cryptomonkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070411225124.GM30772@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> <86k5wo55s0.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070407203411.GJ8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <86wt0n3mxv.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070411214911.GA38351@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20070411225124.GM30772@cicely12.cicely.de>

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:51:25AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
=2E..
> 486 support is definitively needed, but it is very unlikely that many
> real existing 486 system has enough RAM for ZFS.
> AFAIK a ELAN520 can have up to 256MB, but I doubt that one would
> spend so much RAM for such a system without better use for it.
> Not shure about 586, this is more likely.
> But I'm not very familar with x86 assembly, so I don't even know which
> CPUs have cmpxchg8b.
> If ZFS wouldn't be so greedy I might have used it on flash media for
> x86 and ARM systems, but those boards usually don't have enough RAM.
>=20
I'm some people would be interested in being able to use ZFS with boxes like
Soekris for NAS (FreeNAS comes to mind) type stuff...
--=20
Louis Kowolowski	KE7BAX			louisk@cryptomonkeys.com
Cryptomonkeys:                      http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/~louisk

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