Agreed, ZFS on 32-bit CPUs is pretty much a lost cause at this point - I tried using Freenas 8--32-bit with ~2GB of RAM, and it was unstable using Zfs. It's $dying-architecture anyhow, and would prolly need months of work to get the code sorted (which would be a nice thing if Google Summer of Code wants to tackle it. Think of ZFS re-ported to use native 32-bit internals, due to intentionally limited storage expectations - say ~2TB disk max. Would be nice for a home NAS builder on a budget that just wants to re-purpose their old P4 with 2-3GB RAM or the like, and doesn't want to grow it out too much.)
ZFS currently works nice on 64-bit with 4GB of RAM+, or 2GB RAM if you're using a Cloud server. I wouldn't recommend it on 32-bit Intel/AMD, although YMMV if they still make a 32-bit Solaris/clone. > -----Original Message----- > From: christ...@debian.org > Sent: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:26 -0700 > To: d...@cowlark.com > Subject: Re: UFS performance oddities > > Hi! > > David Given <d...@cowlark.com> writes: >>> ZFS should of course be unaffected by the above issue, and be the >>> best-performing choice of filesystem here. >> >> Is ZFS viable on a 32-bit system? The FreeBSD wiki page on it (which, >> being a wiki, is of course out of date, unrepresentative and probably >> wrong) claims that these system is still prone to running out of memory >> and panicking. > > If you're not having several GB of RAM it's just pain and won't gain you > anything > > Regards > > Christoph > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4qd5xtp....@mitoraj.siccegge.de ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c0d5d9d6e8e.000007dckingneut...@inbox.com
