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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:09:45 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:47:13AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> What do you mean by problems 5 years down the road?  The real issue is that
> this 32-bit block count limit affects composite devices like MD RAID and
> LVM today, not just individual disks.  There have been several postings
> I have seen with people having a problem _today_ with a 2TB limit on
> devices.

people who can afford 2TB of disc can afford to buy a 64-bit processor.

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