On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:02:58AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > it will only be a couple of years before 16TB devices are > available. By then, I bet that most arm (and other exotic CPU) Linux > based personal file servers are still going to be 32 bit, so they're not > going to be able to take this generation (or beyond) of drives. > > 1. Try to pretend that CONFIG_LBDAF is supposed to cap out at 16TB > and there's nothing we can do about it ... this won't be at all > popular with arm based file server manufacturers. Some of the higher end home-NAS's have already moved from arm/ppc -> x86_64[1] Unless ARM64 starts appearing at a low enough price point, I wouldn't be surprised to see the smaller vendors do a similar move just to stay competitive. (probably while keeping 'legacy' product lines for a while at a cheaper pricepoint that won't take bigger disks). Dave [1] http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>