From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 15 15:46:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6A55411 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:24:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00876; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:21:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:21:26 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: John Milford Cc: Peter Wemm , Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <20000215142126.B20898@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200002151924.LAA02584@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200002151924.LAA02584@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>; from jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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