Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:42:43 -0500 (EST) From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com> To: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hackers@psconsult.nl> Cc: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_hackers@webcom.it> Subject: Re: ZFS Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151640560.21034@athena> In-Reply-To: <20040915203403.GA26454@psconsult.nl> References: <41483C97.2030303@fer.hr> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151047230.21034@athena> <20040915154338.GA55823@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040915170322.GA75590@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040915203403.GA26454@psconsult.nl>
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. >>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: >>>>> Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B >>>>> sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). >>>> [...] >>>>> Crappy marketing articles. >>>> >>>> This one's good though. fortune(6) worthy, I mean: >>>> >>>> Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of >>>> earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without >>>> boiling the oceans. >>> >>> Hmmmm... that explains the global warming then... >> >> I once calculated that there were sufficient IPv6 addresses (another >> 128 bit quantity) to provide a distinct address for every cluster of >> about 10^12 atoms within planet Earth. 10^12 atoms sounds like quite >> a lot, but it is much smaller than a typical bacterium and a hell of a >> lot smaller than any transistor ever manufactured: even if you >> converted the entire planet into a data storage system, you wouldn't >> have enough matter to build a filesystem that big, let alone power >> supplies, cabling, support structures etc. > > Be ware... > > Jules Verne was called crazy when he saw men would walk on the moon > sometime. > > Leonardo da Vinci was laughed at when he envisioned people flying like > birds. > > We people had things wrong in the past when we held things for impossible. > > We may not be around to witness storing over 2^128 bytes of information > but your words sound like NEVER and I think that's a scary word. And of course when we get there ZFS will be the storage filesystem of choice. Sam
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