On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:33:10AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 03:51:38PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
Hmmm. I suppose it's a matter of timing. 64bit ARM chips are hitting
the market now. Frankly I view this as a problem that will solve
itself, and not worth lifting a finger over.
Just found via lwn.net:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-May/000335.html
Interesting thread, but mostly it reiterates that no 32 bit systems
will be viable past 2038. So there's a hard limit of 24 years
remaining for these machines.
There may well be a plethora of 32 bit microcontrollers still
running strong by then, but how many of them will be capable of
managing more than 4GB of data? Do you really need a 16GB database
in your smart toaster, smart refrigerator, or whatever networked
appliance in the Internet of Things?
You never know. All I know is that Samba will need the
32-bit option for quite some time to come. If we started
full steam lmdb, this meant that we need to maintain two
database engines for the same purpose.