ZFS .. on PowerPC ?

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Marcel,

> 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...

  Pjd has a workaround for non-LP64 systems in

     cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_atomic.c

  .. that funnel all 64-bit atomic ops through a single mutex. Not 
particularly efficient but it should still work. Unless I'm missing some 
other code paths here.

later,

Peter.