On 06/16/09 03:22 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.
Not sure I understand all this concern. 32 bit can use 1.0 TB disks as
data drives.
ZFS can use more than 1 disk. So if you hook up 48 of the 1.0 TB disks
using
ZFS on a 32 bit system, where is the problem?
If someone running a 32bit system is angry because they can't waste a 1.5 TB
seagate disk as the boot drive, then I'll admit I don't understand something
in their requirements. What is the specific complaint please?
Neal
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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