Chris Zakelj wrote:
... I'm wondering if
thought is being given on how to make the physical size (not
filesystem... I totally understand why those should be kept small)
limitation of http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive
http://www.openbsd.org/43.html
"New Functionality:
...
o The ffs layer is now 64-bit disk block address clean. This means that
disks, partitions and filesystems larger than 2TB are now supported, with the
exception of statfs(2) and quotas."
So, yes, thought is being given...
a non-issue on 64-bit platforms
Whether a system is 64-bit or not isn't very relevant to this - that mostly
establishes what the memory address space is, *not* the size of integers that
can be used by the system.
--
Matthew Weigel
hacker
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