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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:12:09 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        "Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS .. on PowerPC ?
Message-ID:  <60ACBA3B-927C-4F2C-8680-A6B40B81E06C@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <B4645B39-9D9D-49C5-8F69-55704CD2F6AA@delfi-konsult.com>
References:  <B4645B39-9D9D-49C5-8F69-55704CD2F6AA@delfi-konsult.com>

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On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

> Hi guys
> Just wanted to test out "zfs" on my TiBook....
> but no luck....
> get :
>
> [root@munin ~]# zfs -?
> internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
>
> regardless of whatever parameters I put to  "zfs" ....
> any gotchas that I should be aware of ?

ZFS requires 64-bit atomic operations, which
PowerPC doesn't have. So, we can't build the
ZFS kernel module. That's probably why you
get the error...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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