Kris Kennaway wrote:As a user, I would expect the above to mean "to continue running quickly". If it has to slow to a crawl for a moment, due to inadequate memory in your system, then that's just tough cookies. But crashing (panicing) is not really acceptable for most people (maybe except a developer). Again from a user perspective, if ZFS needs "tuning" to run at full speed, or even at all, I would expect *it* to be able to do a few simple calculations and do the tuning itself! :-) (even if, in worst case, it requires a clean shutdown and reboot for the new values to take effect) The above is not meant as a criticism of the current explicitly-labeled "experimental" code. Rather, it is what I would hope we might be able to see sometime over the next year... Perhaps the 7.0 release notes should include a note to the effect that ZFS is *strongly* NOT RECOMMENDED on 32-bit systems at this time, due to the likelihood of panics. I say this because it sure sounds like "out of the box" that is what you're most likely to end up with, and even with manual "corrections" you may still have panics. So why not just be upfront about it and tell people that, at least at this time, ZFS is only recommended for 64-bit systems, with a minimum of "N" (2?) GB of memory? If you were already planning something like this for the release notes, my apologies. BTW, I am a happy user of ZFS on a 2GB Core2Duo 64-bit system. I never did any "tuning", it "just worked" for my light-duty file serving needs. This was from the (I believe) May 2007 snapshot. Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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