On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:19:20AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: > > > > ZFS on i386 requires KSTACK_PAGES=4 in the kernel configuration to work > > properly, as noted in the 10.1-RELEASE errata (and release notes, if > > I remember correctly). > > > > We cannot set KSTACK_PAGES=4 in GENERIC by default, as it is too > > disruptive. > > Why? >
Because it takes resources away from userland threads. > > If you are using ZFS on i386, you *must* build your own > > kernel for this. It is otherwise unsupported by default. > > > Why is zfs on i386 so hard? Why is it even in the GENERIC kernel if > it's unsupported? > It is not in GENERIC by default. You have to specifically kldload(8) zfs.ko. Glen
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