From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:42:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0 In-Reply-To: <1035319088.31873.149.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 22 Oct 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > Actually I know a few. 2Tb is cheap - its one pci controller and eight > ide disks. 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.) Ingo -- 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/