Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 64bit offsets for block devices ? | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:24:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Is there any way of getting a standardized way of doing I/O to a block > device which could handle 64bit addresses for the block number?
Submit patches early into 2.5 to extend the block range ?
> Don't you think that we will run into problems anyway because soon there > will be raid systems with a couple of Terrabytes of space to waste for > mp3's ;-)
The limit is currently about 1Tb per block so yes it will eventually get us
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