From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 10:55:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C782E16A469 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E5C13C469; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47B029A4.1070702@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:55:32 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aristedes Maniatis References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and PAE 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: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:55:35 -0000 Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > Given the high memory usage requirements of ZFS, I'd like to load up > servers using it with as much memory as I can. More than 4Gb of memory > on older 32bit CPUs. Since PAE doesn't play with loadable kernel > modules, is there a way to compile ZFS into the kernel itself (if I tick > a box that says I know that licensing issues exist)? PAE does work with kernel modules, and ZFS works fine. Kris