On 16-Jun-09, at 6:22 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
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.
I bet 1+ TB drives in the right format (e.g. SCSI) aren't exactly
cheap or even available...
Let's be reminded that this is about maximum size of a single drive
(or slice?) not dataset or pool.
milosz wrote,
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.
+1
--Toby
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
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