From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 22:49:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7044316A417 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:49:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (alchemy.franken.de [194.94.249.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B8413C44B for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:49:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: from alchemy.franken.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/ALCHEMY.FRANKEN.DE) with ESMTP id m1BMna55086411; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius@alchemy.franken.de) Received: (from marius@localhost) by alchemy.franken.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m1BMnZ8m086410; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:35 +0100 From: Marius Strobl To: Eirik =?unknown-8bit?Q?=D8verby?= Message-ID: <20080211224935.GA86314@alchemy.franken.de> References: <82F43984-3276-482C-ABCD-B72685548527@alge.anart.no> <20080123213531.GC17549@soaustin.net> <2DE6D447-E353-4DAA-96AC-1FA18812EC41@alge.anart.no> <20080124083132.GA15140@soaustin.net> <47AB6C6E.8050304@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, glewis@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:49:43 -0000 On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:38:16AM +0100, Eirik verby wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >Mark Linimon wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:37:03PM +0100, Anders Olstad wrote: > >>>Oh.... The thought that zfs is not for the SPARC64 platform, > >>>hasn't struck me yet. But there's no Java support for it > >>>either.... I should've guessed it. > >>There's no intentional slight of sparc64 here; I just don't think > >>that > >>anyone has tested it yet. I don't believe that the committer who did > >>the work has access to a sparc64 machine. > >>mcl > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > >>" > > > >I tested it briefly but not much beyond verifying that it doesn't > >insta-panic :) > > Our Ultra2 machine is behaving very well now, using both ZFS and Java > (!!) on FreeBSD. Incredible! :) > > We have two internal drives, mirrored using geom_mirror. This has > worked well all the time. > > After csup'ing to 7-RC1-something, and brute-force-compiling ZFS, we > used the external A1000 SCSI disk "shelf" with 12x18gb drives to > create a zpool and a bunch of ZFS filesystems. Since then, we've > integrated ZFS quotas and limits with the jails (growing in > numbers..), without incident so far. > > We've added another A1000 disk shelf that we'll probably set up as a > mirror of the current one, again using the z* tools. Could you please give a zfs.ko built with the patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/zfs_atomic_sparc64.diff a try? In theory it should improve performance by not letting the OpenSolaris compat code work around the lack of some atomic operations. > > Oh and Landon Fuller has been kind enough to spend a few days > compiling Java 1.6 for FreeBSD on the machine, so I believe (his > words) we are now running the worlds first Java-enabled FreeBSD/Sparc64. > Could you please work with glewis@ to integrate the required changes into the port? Marius