Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:51:52 -0700


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:14:21PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> What about the 64bit sector_t (aka >2TB blockdevice) patches. IMHO
> they're a must-have for 2.6 (people already ask for backporting them
> to 2.4..) and last time I check Peter had a BK tree with nicely
> split changesets.

Indeed. I *really* would like to see this.

Consider a super-cheap IDE raid setup, 8x320GB drives for a single
filesystem. This means the files-system starts are 2.1TB (raid5, more
with raid0) and if you want to grow it...

--cw (who has lots of DVDs to stream about the house)
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