On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:39:30AM -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > > Casper's point about 64-bit's is very important. ZFS needs to map > > the cache into the kernel's address space, which is very limited in > > the 32-bit world, thus the suggested requirement for 64-bit CPUs. > > I'm a newbie to ZFS. Can some explain this point a bit deeper. If I > try to run ZFS on a 32-bit system will it just be slower or is the > maximum storage pool size actually limited by the 32-but address > space?
Only the cache size is limited by the 32-bit address space, thus (potentially) affecting performance. The amount of space in the storage pool is not limited. --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
