Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:20:30 -0700 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>, Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Message-ID: <20040916162030.GK1047@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20040916151216.GB29643@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <41483C97.2030303@fer.hr> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151047230.21034@athena> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161010020.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161528520.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409161040480.28550@athena> <20040916151216.GB29643@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:12:16AM -0400, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > Where on earth would you find a disk system that can store 2^64 bytes of > data or larger, anyway? Don't physical and technological limitations > limit the total capacity of even the largest hard drives now available? > It would take millions of drives, or more, to create a single 2^64 byte > logical drive. You can bet that somebody, somewhere, needs this right now. And someone will definitely need it in the next 5-10 years. BMS
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