On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:13:32PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Yes, there are millions of 32-bit systems in use today. They do their job
> just fine with the 32-bit device support we have right now. Do you really
> want to penalize them *all* for the sake of the few idiotic sysadmins who
> want multi-TB storage on their 32-bit system?
And they can even have that multi-TB storage today. It's the lazy ones
who want to combine all their 80GB discs into one virtual device.
In case anyone's getting the wrong idea from this, I _do_ think we ought
to make the 2TB limit go away. I _don't_ think we should do that by going
to 64-bit block numbers on 32-bit machines. Linus suggested a while back
(in one of the kiobuf flamewa^W discussions) that the block device layer
ought to work fine with non-512-byte-blocks. Perhaps those who are keen
to see Linux support large drives should investigate that instead.
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