From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:33:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:33:52 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-040-248.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.40.248]:47590 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:33:51 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Anton Altaparmakov , Peter Chubb Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:32:37 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, axboe@suse.de, akpm@zip.com.au, martin@dalecki.de, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 14 May 2002 03:36, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > ...And yes at the > moment the pagecache limit is also a problem which we just ignore in the > hope that the kernel will have gone to 64 bits by the time devices grow > that large as to start using > 32 bits of blocks/pages... PAGE_CACHE_SIZE can also grow, so 32 bit architectures are further away from the page cache limit on than it seems. -- Daniel