Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:35 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Eirik =?unknown-8bit?Q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, glewis@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on 7.0-RC1 SPARC64 Message-ID: <20080211224935.GA86314@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <FC871AE4-BB0D-461A-A3B0-59FA6DC6A34D@anduin.net> 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> <FC871AE4-BB0D-461A-A3B0-59FA6DC6A34D@anduin.net>
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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
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