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Good. It's about time. 4KB pages come down to us from 32-bit time immemorial. We didn't bump the page size when we doubled the sizes of pointers and longs for the 64-bit transition. 4KB has been way too small for ages, and I'm glad we're biting the minor compatibility bullet and adopting a page size more suited to modern computing.


Now do 512B LBAs on NVMe devices.




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