Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:55:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us>, Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZFS Message-ID: <20040916195504.GA63980@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040916194526.GA3364@VARK.homeunix.com> 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> <20040916162030.GK1047@empiric.icir.org> <1095355201.530.14.camel@localhost> <20040916194526.GA3364@VARK.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:45:26PM -0400, David Schultz wrote.. > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004, Frank Knobbe wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:20, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > You can bet that somebody, somewhere, needs this right now. And someone > > > will definitely need it in the next 5-10 years. > > > > Naahh... there is No Such Application for it. ;) > > Actually, there are a number of parties---banks, governments, > geneticists, and Internet search engines, for instance---who > never seem to have enough storage. > > I've seen lots of FUD and bad math on this thread, so let's do a > quick back-of-the-envelope calculation. Hitachi and other storage > vendors already ship systems with on the order of 1 petabyte > (2^50B) of capacity. That's 14 doublings away from 2^64. Storage Actually, I have been in a discussion with a customer intrested in 11PB of storage. Typically you are looking at people storing audio & video archives and the like. Or the folks that run particle accelerators or biosciences. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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