On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:25:58PM -0700, Toby Thain wrote: > > 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. >
Ah, missed that part. That's what I get for jumping in in the middle of a thread. :-) Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
