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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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