From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 15 19: 0:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08658497B for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id SAA13218; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:27:05 -0800 (PST) env-from (jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Message-Id: <200002160227.SAA13218@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> To: Brooks Davis Cc: Peter Wemm , Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? In-reply-to: Message from Brooks Davis of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:21:26 PST." <20000215142126.B20898@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:27:03 -0800 From: John Milford Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis wrote: > 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. ;-) > Ok, what I was getting at is that 1TB is a very large single filesystem, but I can understand as time goes by this will become more important. If it is omething that will really help peolple I would be willing to try to do something to fix it, but if these types of filesystems are not within reach now, then it may be a better use of effort to wait on this issue. --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message