On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 14:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > 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). So yould you bet on the problem solving itself *before* we get 16TB disks? Because if we ignore it, that's the bet we're making. James -- 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>