Re: ZFS with 32-bit, non-x86 kernel

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 13:27:20 -0600
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 1:07 PM Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 10/4/19 10:05 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone use ZFS with a 32-bit kernel, that is also not i386 ?
> > If you do, could you please let me know?  Along with uname -rmp output.
> > Thank you!
> >
>
> I don't know if that has even been attempted by anyone. The ZIL and ZFS
> log comonents require substantial amounts of memory and I am not aware
> of anyone with arm devices that have 8GB+ of memory. I have had FreeBSD
> current on RISC-V running fairly well with ZFS however that was a purely
> rv64imafdc architecture.
>

In the FreeBSD 10 time frame I know people were running ZFS on arm7 boards.
Iirc, there was a long list of tweaks needed to size of the ZIL. A quick
google didn't find it.

Otoh, I looked at ZFS for NanoBSD when it first came out. I gave up because
the 256MB boards at the time made any kind of storage traffic ran things
out of memory.

Warner


I will watch this thread with curiosity.
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