Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:11:42 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r197218 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs Message-ID: <4AAFBCBE.6000002@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20090915150047.GA2199@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <200909151134.n8FBYr8F086888@svn.freebsd.org> <4AAF944F.1040209@errno.com> <20090915150047.GA2199@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:19:11AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >>> Author: pjd >>> Date: Tue Sep 15 11:34:53 2009 >>> New Revision: 197218 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197218 >>> >>> Log: >>> We believe ZFS is ready for production use. Remove a warning about it >>> being >>> experimental. :) >> This is great news! Is this amd64 only (or i386 too)? How about >> non-x86 architectures (have people tested on sparc64, ppc, etc)? > > I do most of my tests on i386 with 1GB of RAM. It isn't optimal hardware > configuration for ZFS, but it seems to work fine in most cases. For the > other archs I think I tried sparc64 in the past and Marcel committed > some fixes so it can work on ia64. When it comes to powerpc, arm, mips, > etc. I haven't done any testing and I wouldn't recommend ZFS for those > archs anyway. We should probably also warn about that. > Thank you for the explanation. ppc has support for Xserve if I recall (or perhaps in process); that should be suitable. I was mostly trying to understand which arch's zfs has been successfully deployed on. Sam
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