Am 22.02.2013 um 15:31 hat Dietmar Maurer geschrieben:
> > > Honestly, 64k*4G = 128T is not a limit for me. And we still have one
> > > byte reserved, so we can have up to 1P per image, and up to 253 images.
> > >
> > > For now I have no plans to backup such large VMs.
> > 
> > 640k ought to be enough for anybody?
> > 
> > Code is easy enough to change that "works for now" can be good enough.
> > Changing file formats and external interfaces is hard, though, so better 
> > get it
> > right the first time. I don't want to get patches for a new format in a 
> > year or two
> > just because 128T was enough for the first few users.
> 
> So what address space do you want - 64bit?

Yes, I think 64 bits makes the most sense.

Kevin

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