On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 23:01 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:47:43PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 10:53 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > > Well but as far as I understand, this means that the same IV could be > > > > used in multiple sectors (after the 32bit), right? > > > Err, no? That would be "after 64 bit". > > > > Uhm why? If we have 64, bits but the upper 32 are masked 0 as far as I > > understood... ? > > For plain. Not for plain64, i.e. plain is plain 64 with 32 bits > masked and plain64 is full 64 bits. Yeah that's what I meant,.. did I write plain64? > > > If you go over 64 bit sector numbers, definitely. However it is > > > hard to quantify how large this impact would be. > > But 64bit 512byte sectors would allow us a ~9,4 ZB device, right? So > > that is unlikely to happen the next... say 3 years or so ;) > > I hope so ;-) Well depends.... if I'm the one inventing such a storage device,... I'd hope not ;) Cheers, Chris.
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