Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:00:24 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: what is our answer to ZFS? |
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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?
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