Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Fixing large block devices on 32 bit

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:02:58AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
 
 > it will only be a couple of years before 16TB devices are
 > available.  By then, I bet that most arm (and other exotic CPU) Linux
 > based personal file servers are still going to be 32 bit, so they're not
 > going to be able to take this generation (or beyond) of drives. 
 > 
 >      1. Try to pretend that CONFIG_LBDAF is supposed to cap out at 16TB
 >         and there's nothing we can do about it ... this won't be at all
 >         popular with arm based file server manufacturers.

Some of the higher end home-NAS's have already moved from arm/ppc -> x86_64[1]
Unless ARM64 starts appearing at a low enough price point, I wouldn't be 
surprised to see the smaller vendors do a similar move just to stay competitive.
(probably while keeping 'legacy' product lines for a while at a cheaper pricepoint
 that won't take bigger disks).

	Dave

[1] http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have

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