> Current hrStorageTable supports only 32bit hrStorageSize. With 4096 big
> allocation units, it supports disks up to 16 TB. These sizes are
> pretty common nowdays and I got few requests to do something about it. The
> only thing which comes to my mind is to lie about hrStorageAllocationUnits
> and report something bigger that 4096, so hrStorageSize fits into 32bits.
>
> This has obvious problems:
> 1) we lie about allocation units.
> 2) we loose few bits in precission of the total size of the device,
> size * allocation units won't give real size of the drive but some
> aproximation only.
>
> On the other hand, I think that something is better than completely broken
> hrStorageSize for such devices.

Why not adopt a philosophy similar to the way that IF-MIB handled it?
This is obviously not a one-off problem.  In the next 5 to 10 years,
this will be huge.

Perhaps we add "hrHCStorageSize" which is a 64-bit integer (cf.
"ifHCInOctets").  Or maybe "hrLargeStorageSize" which is measured in
megabytes (cf. "ifHighSpeed").  These could go in "hrXStorageEntry"
which would be defined as an extension table.

What team/committee is responsible for the HOST-RESOURCES MIB?

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