On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote..
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote:
Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B
sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...).
[...]
Crappy marketing articles.
This one's good though. fortune(6) worthy, I mean:
Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of
earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without
boiling the oceans.
Hmmmm... that explains the global warming then...
I once calculated that there were sufficient IPv6 addresses (another
128 bit quantity) to provide a distinct address for every cluster of
about 10^12 atoms within planet Earth. 10^12 atoms sounds like quite
a lot, but it is much smaller than a typical bacterium and a hell of a
lot smaller than any transistor ever manufactured: even if you
converted the entire planet into a data storage system, you wouldn't
have enough matter to build a filesystem that big, let alone power
supplies, cabling, support structures etc.
Be ware...
Jules Verne was called crazy when he saw men would walk on the moon
sometime.
Leonardo da Vinci was laughed at when he envisioned people flying like
birds.
We people had things wrong in the past when we held things for impossible.
We may not be around to witness storing over 2^128 bytes of information
but your words sound like NEVER and I think that's a scary word.
And of course when we get there ZFS will be the storage filesystem of
choice.
Sam
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