On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 22:53 -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: > David Gwynne wrote: > > > solaris suffers from this problem. you cant use big disks with 32bit > > solaris kernels. > > For UFS, at least, but doesn't ZFS on i386 (not amd64) scale?
The filesystem yes, but the block addressing no. I had to split a large raid into lots-of-lessthan1T parts and run zfs on top of them to get a large filesystem on solarisx86-10 lately. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]