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by Svetlitski 1086 days ago
Starting with Ice Lake there’s support for 5-level paging, which increases this to 128 PiB. Can’t say that I’ve ever seen this used in the wild though.
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Yeah, there mostly isn’t a use case for it in databases. If you have that much storage you’ll need to bypass the kernel cache and scheduler anyway for other reasons. That was true even at the 48-bit limit.