Cyril Plisko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Just one more things on this:
>>
>> Run with a 64-bit processor. Don't even think of using a 32-bit one -
>> there are known issues with ZFS not quite properly using 32-bit only
>> structures.  That is, ZFS is really 64-bit clean, but not 32-bit clean.
>>
>>     
>
> Wow ! That's a statement. Can you provide more info on these 32-bit issues ?
> I am not aware of any. In fact besides being sluggish (presumably due
> to limited address space) I never noticed any issues with ZFS, which I
> used on 32-bit machine for 2 years.
>
>   

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Looking through the Bug database, it seems that a good chunk of 
32-bit-related problems have been resolved. However, there hasn't been a 
general fix for the overall issue noted in the above discussion.

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Erik Trimble
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