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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:03:02 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig Makefile mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c
Message-ID:  <20040917170302.GT30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <414B10FB.9030003@samsco.org>
References:  <98480.1095438391@critter.freebsd.dk> <414B10FB.9030003@samsco.org>

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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:29:47AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
+> >Uhm, be aware that we are limited also to the size of individual
+> >swap disks.  31 bits of bytes/sectors/pages, not quite sure which.
+> >
+>=20
+> 32 bits of pages, unless there is somewhere in the chain that the=20
+> unsigned nature of the word is not being honored.

Pages. It gives as maximum swap-backed device of 16TB. I tested it with
~15TB devices, so there is no signed/unsigned problem (which will limit
us to 8TB). Of course you can always (I hope) increase page size:)

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