Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: possible SCSI device numbering solution | Date | Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:03:42 +0200 | From | Willy Konijnenberg <> |
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> On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:30:54 +0200 (MET DST), Gerd Knorr > <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> said: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > >> > One thing tho, would we even need more than 65536 major devices? > > >> I'm reminded of somebody saying, "they'll never need more than 640k". :-/ > > > This really is'nt a problem. If you look back, the capacity of hard > > disks increased, not the number of hard disks in a system. It's much more > > likely that we run in trouble becauce 32 bits are to small to count the > > all the sectors of a disk... > > Well, that gives us 2TB of disk space. We're not going to run into > this limit _just_ yet... (famous last words)
Let me see, I just read of someone with a 54GB ext2 filesystem, so that gives us a factor of 20. Going from 100MB to 2GB happened in the last 5 years or so (remember when Linux started?), so within 5 years someone *will* complain about this ridiculous limitation... :-)
-- Willy Konijnenberg <willy@xos.nl> X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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