ZFS .. on PowerPC ?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

> Hi guys
> Just wanted to test out "zfs" on my TiBook....
> but no luck....
> get :
>
> [root at munin ~]# zfs -?
> internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
>
> regardless of whatever parameters I put to  "zfs" ....
> any gotchas that I should be aware of ?

ZFS requires 64-bit atomic operations, which
PowerPC doesn't have. So, we can't build the
ZFS kernel module. That's probably why you
get the error...

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