[ceejayoz]

In fairness, this would eventually happen on a 64 bit machine too, just not as quickly.

No excuse for not reading the docs, though.

[xoail]

Indeed but by then there will be more advancements in software to compliment changes. If you are in technology business it is assumed that you will keep up with technology.

[cheald]

The 64-bit limit is 8.6 exabytes. There won't be anyone using Mongo that runs into that limit this century.

[krzyk]

But when you run out of disk space (as one of the posters wrote) it doesn't complain either. And running of of disk space happens.