From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 18:45: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C937937B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D214A43F79 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:45:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0U2ixvA036326; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:44:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:44:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. In-Reply-To: <3E388DF8.52C6235B@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20030129214141.R8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129171908.G8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21992.586804.141143@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129173416.U8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.23728.549120.559276@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129180043.S8642@sasami.jurai.net> <20030129235040.GY16038@geekpunk.net> <20030129185154.U8642@sasami.jurai.net> <3E388DF8.52C6235B@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > And anyone that's doing clustering and things that it can't be done on a > 32 bit machine, and not looking at the VAX, which runs VMS, deserves > what they get. > > ...Sorry, had to be said... 8-). If we were talking about clustering 32 bit machines with less than 128mb of memory each that would be true. I suppose you could use some sort of PAE to allow every cluster member's address space to be mapped but a 64 bit address space means that you don't have to worry as much about this. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message