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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2007 10:01:25 +0000
From:      Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <20070524100125.GB52149@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170705231132h2c4dbc2avae3d0393849e03c7@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20070410013034.GC8189@nowhere> <20070410014233.GD8189@nowhere> <4651BD6F.5050301@unsane.co.uk> <20070522083112.GA5136@hub.freebsd.org> <4652B15D.5060505@unsane.co.uk> <20070523085532.GA27542@hub.freebsd.org> <20070523093231.GA29797@xor.obsecurity.org> <f31419$bd8$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070523181903.GA60674@xor.obsecurity.org> <b1fa29170705231132h2c4dbc2avae3d0393849e03c7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:32:13AM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
> >Not entirely, because solaris also runs on i386 (this is what was
> >confusing me).  I guess the answer is that ZFS has similar issues on
> >Solaris i386 that it did on FreeBSD i386.
> 
> My understanding is that Sun has more or less abandoned 32-bit x86 in
> favor of x86_64.

I don't know where you got that from or how your arrived
at that conclusion...

While I don't know of any hardware that is *only* 32bit and
sold by Sun, Solaris 10 runs on 32bit PCs and will do for the
foreseeable future as I'm sure a good part of the opensolaris
community would be upset if it were to be abandoned.

Darren



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