From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 11 19:03:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA11867 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 19:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA11861 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA13114; Sun, 12 May 1996 11:57:02 +1000 Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 11:57:02 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199605120157.LAA13114@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ? Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu, phk@critter.tfs.com Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> * 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