From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0
Date: 22 Oct 2002 22:18:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035321506.329.161.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210222237180.22860-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:42, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 2Tb should still work. And to get to the 16 TB limit you'd have to
> recompile with PAE. It costs some (rather limited) RAM overhead and some
> fork() overhead. I think ext2/ext3fs's current 2Tb/4Tb limit is a much
> bigger problem, you cannot compile around that - are there any patches in
> fact that lift that limit? (well, one solution is to use another
> filesystem.)
At > 2Tb XFS/JFS would probably make a lot more sense anyway. We have
the 320Gb disks available now, no doubt by the time 2.6 is out we'll be
looking at 640Gb disks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 17:57 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-22 19:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 20:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 20:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 21:18 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-23 19:09 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2002-10-22 20:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-22 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 2:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 11:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23 14:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-23 14:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22 19:13 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-22 22:56 ` Ingo Molnar
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