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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:44:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network block device.
Message-ID:  <20030129214141.R8642@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E388DF8.52C6235B@mindspring.com>
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>

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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.

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