On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:16:09PM -0700, milosz wrote: > yeah i pretty much agree with you on this. the fact that no one has > brought this up before is a pretty good indication of the demand. > there are about 1000 things i'd rather see fixed/improved than max > disk size on a 32bit platform.
I'd say a lot of folks out there have plenty of enterprise-class 32-bit hardware still in production in their datacenters. I know I do. Several IBM BladeCenters with 32-bit blades and attached storage... It would be "nice" to be able to do ZFS on these platforms (>1TB that is), but I understand if it's not a priority. But there's certainly a lot of life left in 32-bit hardware, and not all of it is cheap to replace. Ray > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Neal Pollack<neal.poll...@sun.com> wrote: > > On 06/16/09 02:39 PM, roland wrote: > >> > >> so, we have a 128bit fs, but only support for 1tb on 32bit? > >> > >> i`d call that a bug, isn`t it ? is there a bugid for this? ;) > >> > > > > Well, opinion is welcome. > > I'd call it an RFE. > > > > With 64 bit versions of the CPU chips so inexpensive these days, > > how much money do you want me to invest in moving modern features > > and support to old versions of the OS? > > > > I mean, Microsoft could, on a technical level, backport all new features > > from > > Vista and Windows Seven to Windows 95. But if they did that, their current > > offering > > would lag, since all the engineers would be working on the older stuff. > > > > Heck, you can buy a 64 bit CPU motherboard very very cheap. The staff that > > we do have > > are working on modern features for the 64bit version, rather than spending > > all their time > > "in the rear-view mirror". Live life forward. Upgrade. > > Changing all the data structures in the 32 bit OS to handle super larger > > disks, is, well, sorta > > like trying to get a Pentium II to handle HD Video. I'm sure, with enough > > time and money, > > you might find a way. But is it worth it? Or is it cheaper to buy a new > > pump? > > > > Neal _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
