ZFS ??

[Niels S. Eliasen]

Hi Nathan
ok... too bad for all of using G4's ...
well... principally I just want a filesystem with snapshot capability.....
any other options ??

Den 15/06/2010 kl. 16.39 skrev Nathan Whitehorn:

> Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
>> hi
>> just wondered if thee is any chance of getting ZFS running on freebsd-ppc ??
>>  
> Unlikely on 32-bit PPC systems. ZFS requires a lot of KVA, which is limited on ppc32, and also requires 64-bit atomics, which are not available except through some slow backup code that uses a mutex. ZFS will work on ppc64, however, where both these problems are alleviated.
> -Nathan

kind regards

nse

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