Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:21:26 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <20000215142126.B20898@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200002151924.LAA02584@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>; from jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800 References: <peter@netplex.com.au> <200002151924.LAA02584@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800, John Milford wrote: > > Is there any real interest in moving beyond 1TB? I think that > it would incur a non-trival overhead as I believe that unsigned ints > would not work and we would be looking at going to 64 bit values. Or > I guess something could be done to simulate larger sectors, but that > is pure speculation. There should be. The digital library people are talking about tens of petabytes per site and that's probably just the beginning. I think they ordered a petabyte scale array earlier this year. Obviously we'd like FreeBSD to be able to play with those. ;-) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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