Adam Lindsay wrote: > Hello, Robert, > > Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> Because it offers upto 1GB of memory, 32bit shouldn't be an issue. > > Sorry, could someone expand on this? > The only received opinion I've seen on 32-bit is from the ZFS best > practice wiki, which simply says "Run ZFS on a system that runs a 64-bit > kernel." I have little idea where this comes from, and had no idea that > it would rely on memory concerns.
Put simply, ZFS eats address space for breakfast :) So if you have a 64bit cpu, with its larger address space, that's a better option than 32bit. If you don't have a 64bit cpu, add more ram(tm). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
