Unfortunately supporting the larger LBA range is not as trivial as one might 
think....

The underlying data structures and routines are using 32-bit fields not only 
for the volslices....but the RAID groups they are cut from..

Changing those creates some ripples that need to be resolved and would also 
require the array to be wiped, or some ugly data structure migration code to be 
written.

The user interface would need to be revised to ensure it behaves correctly, and 
someone would probably scream if the token interface did not get updated as 
well.

Decoding the bigger CDB is the easy part...

-Joel
 
 
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