Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:14:57 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: what is our answer to ZFS? |
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > >> In article <200511211252.04217.rob@landley.net> you wrote: > >> > >> > >>> 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. > > > What does "it's all mute" mean?
It means "it's all moot."
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