From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0 From: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 22 Oct 2002 22:18:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1035321506.329.161.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/