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SubjectRe: what is our answer to ZFS?
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

>In article <200511211252.04217.rob@landley.net> you wrote:
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>>I believe that on 64 bit platforms, Linux has a 64 bit clean VFS. Python says
>>2**64 is 18446744073709551616, and that's roughly:
>>18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes
>>18,446,744,073,709 megs
>>18,446,744,073 gigs
>>18,446,744 terabytes
>>18,446 ... what are those, pedabytes (petabytes?)
>>18 zetabytes
>>
There you go. I deal with this a lot so, those are the names.

Linux is currently limited to 16 TB per VFS mount point, it's all mute, unless VFS gets fixed.
mmap won't go above this at present.

Jeff



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