Re: [PATCH] remove 2TB block device limit

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 15:32:37 EST

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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
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