[geeks] FreeBSD advice please?

Tue Mar 10 08:20:16 CDT 2009

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:20:18AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> ZFS is only supported on FreeBSD on AMD64?  If soi, I'm not going to get
> very far with dual Intel Xeons then ...

FreeBSD supports ZFS on 32-bit platforms, but a 64-bit CPU is recommended
due to the large memory requirements (which require even more tuning on
32-bit systems). [1]

Do your Xeons support EM64T (I'm guessing so as you ran Solaris on the
system)? If so, the amd64 version will run fine on them.

[1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems 
    http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide

-mj
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