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Subject: Re: ZFS .. on PowerPC ?
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Hi Niels,

> regardless of whatever parameters I put to  "zfs" ....
> any gotchas that I should be aware of ?
> 
> BTW: this is stock 7.0 FreeBSD(PowerPC)

  My guess is that the limited amount of KVM on FreeBSD/ppc is going to 
get you. There's only 512M, so it would be prone to the same issues as 
are occurring on i386, only more so :(

  Keep us informed though: I'm interested to see how it goes.

later,

Peter.