Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:27:03 -0800 From: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <200002160227.SAA13218@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:21:26 PST." <20000215142126.B20898@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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
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