Darren Reed <darrenr_at_freebsd.org> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> writes: > > My point is that it is a lot more difficult for us to implement ZFS > > support in an OS that is intended to run on everything and the kitchen > > sink, from the crappiest 486 to the latest quad-core Xeon, with all > > kinds of crappy disk controllers, than it is for Sun to do the same in > > Solaris, which mostly runs on hardware designed and manufactured by Sun > > for the specific purpose of running Solaris. > > Which is why I'm using FreeBSD+ZFS rather than Solaris+ZFS :-) > > Maybe more layers are required in FreeBSD disk I/O subsystem to > shield things like ZFS from crappy controllers? You completely misunderstand - the issue is not shielding ZFS from the crappy controllers - that is already taken care of - but having to reimplement the entire stack in the BTX loader, and in boot2 (which needs to be able to locate and load the BTX loader). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Fri May 18 2007 - 09:19:31 UTC
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