Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 11:57:02 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, terry@lambert.org Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ? Message-ID: <199605120157.LAA13114@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> * So how big is the filesystem that you're trying to make ? :-) >> >> Three terabytes. (Hey stop laughing) >He's finally getting around to removing the "triple indirect blocks >have not been tested" comment from the source -- it's been annoying >him for years. >8-) 8-) 8-). I would have thought that he was going to implement and test quintuple indirect blocks and file systems and files of size 2^128 :-) :-) :-) :-). A holey 3TB file system with a block size of 8K fits easily on a 1GB virtual disk (3TB/8K = 375MB for empty blocks plus a few hundred MB for metadata). Bruce
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