From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.28 and partitions
Date: 24 Jul 2002 23:00:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufaznwg319m.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alexander Viro's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:42:41 -0400 (EDT)"
>>>>> "AV" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
AV> That stuff becomes an issue for 2Tb disks. Do we actually have
AV> something that large attached to 32bit boxen?
Yes, I just built a few machines with 2.2TB of disk apiece. And this
isn't really all that esoteric; each box only cost around $7K.
AV> ... and still use i386 with these disks? ia64 is stillborn, but
AV> x86-64 promises to be more useful than Itanic.
Well, these are just file servers. It would be a waste to stick a
64bit processor in there just for its 64bitness; if I could get
Hammers, I'd rather run compute jobs on them and leave the menial
tasks like file serving to the 32bit machines.
AV> u64 for sector_t doesn't change anything for 64bit boxen that
AV> might be interested in really large disks and screws 32bit ones
AV> that shouldn't have to pay for that...
Well, I'd happily run a custom kernel on these machines. I certainly
don't want my other hundred-plus machines to run slower just to let a
handful of file servers see all of their disk, but it would be nice to
have the choice.
- J<
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 22:42 Andries.Brouwer
2002-07-24 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 0:20 ` kwijibo
2002-07-25 4:00 ` Jason L Tibbitts III [this message]
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241925450.14656-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 2:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 5:15 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207242213540.1231-100000@home.transmeta.com >
2002-07-25 8:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 3:22 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-25 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 11:44 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207250739390.17037-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 13:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 16:50 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 17:35 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-07-25 17:57 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-25 18:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-27 5:56 ` Austin Gonyou
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207251245530.17621-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 17:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-25 12:43 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-25 13:24 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-25 13:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-26 5:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-25 17:50 Andries.Brouwer
[not found] <15688.25919.138565.6427@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 22:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 10:08 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 12:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-01 19:29 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 20:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 20:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:25 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 21:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-02 19:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-01 21:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 21:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:45 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 5:21 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-01 21:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 19:47 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 20:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 21:21 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 22:12 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:53 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-07-31 22:47 Matt_Domsch
[not found] <F44891A593A6DE4B99FDCB7CC537BBBBB839AC@AUSXMPS308.aus.amer .dell.com>
2002-07-31 22:58 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-31 23:38 Matt_Domsch
[not found] <15688.27022.143541.447952@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-02 14:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-08-02 18:33 ` Kai Henningsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ufaznwg319m.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu \
--to=tibbs@math.uh.edu \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®