From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 23:30:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8855A16A403; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:30:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from louisk@cryptomonkeys.com) Received: from abeyance.cryptomonkeys.com (abeyance.cryptomonkeys.com [67.42.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB0E13C45D; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:30:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from louisk@cryptomonkeys.com) Received: from localhost (dsl092-011-183.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.11.183]) (authenticated bits=0) by abeyance.cryptomonkeys.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3BNAls7005056 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:10:46 -0700 From: Louis Kowolowski To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070411231045.GC1726@cryptomonkeys.com> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070411225124.GM30772@cicely12.cicely.de> User-Agent: TV Remote 3.2b X-Disclaimer: WARNING: May contain scarcasm! X-Header: "WARNING: POLITICALLY INCORRECT AREA All P.C. Personnel entering these premises will encounter gravely offensive behavior and opinions. (SEC4623. Ministry of political incorrection security act of 1995) RAMPANT INSENSITIVITY AUTHORIZED" X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A77 80FD 3F4D 995E A807 A218 664D 2BEA 8024 37B6 X-GPG-Key: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/~louisk/pgp.html Organization: Hopelessly Disorganized Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:30:23 -0000 --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Warning: Do not point laser at remaining eye! --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGHWr1Zk0r6oAkN7YRAq8AAKCUObGmjzOevsjouXbK0ojv5LSDHACfZiPT USwkAsZmF9tjiUu37R+8lac= =Tx0F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JgQwtEuHJzHdouWu--