Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
