Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 10:04:01 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit |
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> writes:
Daniel> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 03:36, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> ...And yes at the moment the pagecache limit is also a problem >> which we just ignore in the hope that the kernel will have gone to >> 64 bits by the time devices grow that large as to start using > 32 >> bits of blocks/pages...
Daniel> PAGE_CACHE_SIZE can also grow, so 32 bit architectures are Daniel> further away from the page cache limit on than it seems.
Check out the table on page 2 of http://www.scsita.org/statech/01s005r1.pdf
The SCSI trade association is predicting 200TB in a high-end server within 10 years --- and 2TB in a high-end desktop by 2004. I'd take some of their predictions with a grain of salt, however.
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