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It's the 21st century, so maybe you should upgrade from 1992 to 2018! That's 26 years! You really want a heavy weight like ZFS (which is a total memory hog, bt

by zmix 8y ago

It's the 21st century, so maybe you should upgrade from 1992 to 2018! That's 26 years! You really want a heavy weight like ZFS (which is a total memory hog, btw., I use it in my server) on Amiga hardware from 1992? You should be happy, that there is such an update to AmigaOS at all ! I understand the enthusiasm. I used an A4000/Cyberstorm060/CyberGfx64 exclusively till 2001. I did not care, that each reboot would take 6 minutes (with starting all the background stuff) and that my system was runtime memory patched into oblivion, and no memory protection in the system. That it crashed 10 times a day (multiply this with boot times, HO HO!). But one day a day has come and one needs to realize: Reality!

Annatar 8y ago
"It's the 21st century, so maybe you should upgrade from 1992 to 2018! That's 26 years!" I did upgrade: 128 MB FAST RAM, 64-bit MC68080 @ ~234 MHz with AMMX SIMD instructions, 16 GB industry grade CF and 8 GB microSDHC. OS 3.9 @ 1300 x 768 x 32-bit color HDMI. "You really want a heavy weight like ZFS (which is a total memory hog, btw., I use it in my server) on Amiga hardware from 1992?" Yes, I do, because as a Solaris engineer, I understand that ZFS will release memory due to memory pressure from applications, and can in fact run in memory constrained systems. Should be able to run on an Amiga with a Vampire accelerator and 129 MB of RAM. ZIL is auto tuned. Just don't use features like de-duplication and it'll be fine. (My reboots take about three seconds, with or without the Vampire accelerator, and that's even with OS 3.9.)
- zmix 8y ago
  I was referring to your tone, which makes it sound, as it would be the most normal thing in the IT world, to have modern technologies running on a system, that died (most would say) 20+ years ago and what's left, is thanks to some extremely talented Necromantic Wizards ;-) Anyways, I know that feeling: http://cd.textfiles.com/amigama/amigama199803/WWW/ctools/www.ctools.pp.se/AMIGA/Survivor.gif http://cd.textfiles.com/amigama/amigama199803/WWW/ctools/www...
  - Annatar 8y ago
    This is Amiga we're discussing here, a computer designed to be almost infinitely upgradable, so yes, I expect it as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Just look at all the new hardware upgrades coming out! There is even the Amiga reloaded project with a revised A500+ motherboard design coming out, and a new A500-A1200-A4000 hybrid motherboard being designed, so Amiga is far from dead, just very niche. What hadn't kept pace is the OS: even the most modern AmigaOS 4.1 is far from capabilities of modern operating systems like illumos, and I mean very, very far behind. http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded

by zmix 8y ago

Annatar 8y ago

"It's the 21st century, so maybe you should upgrade from 1992 to 2018! That's 26 years!" I did upgrade: 128 MB FAST RAM, 64-bit MC68080 @ ~234 MHz with AMMX SIMD instructions, 16 GB industry grade CF and 8 GB microSDHC. OS 3.9 @ 1300 x 768 x 32-bit color HDMI. "You really want a heavy weight like ZFS (which is a total memory hog, btw., I use it in my server) on Amiga hardware from 1992?" Yes, I do, because as a Solaris engineer, I understand that ZFS will release memory due to memory pressure from applications, and can in fact run in memory constrained systems. Should be able to run on an Amiga with a Vampire accelerator and 129 MB of RAM. ZIL is auto tuned. Just don't use features like de-duplication and it'll be fine. (My reboots take about three seconds, with or without the Vampire accelerator, and that's even with OS 3.9.)

zmix 8y ago
I was referring to your tone, which makes it sound, as it would be the most normal thing in the IT world, to have modern technologies running on a system, that died (most would say) 20+ years ago and what's left, is thanks to some extremely talented Necromantic Wizards ;-) Anyways, I know that feeling: http://cd.textfiles.com/amigama/amigama199803/WWW/ctools/www.ctools.pp.se/AMIGA/Survivor.gif http://cd.textfiles.com/amigama/amigama199803/WWW/ctools/www...
- Annatar 8y ago
  This is Amiga we're discussing here, a computer designed to be almost infinitely upgradable, so yes, I expect it as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Just look at all the new hardware upgrades coming out! There is even the Amiga reloaded project with a revised A500+ motherboard design coming out, and a new A500-A1200-A4000 hybrid motherboard being designed, so Amiga is far from dead, just very niche. What hadn't kept pace is the OS: even the most modern AmigaOS 4.1 is far from capabilities of modern operating systems like illumos, and I mean very, very far behind. http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded