Sam wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:
Sam wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Jan Grant wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Sam wrote:
Let's suppose you generate an exabyte of storage per year. Filling a 64-bit
filesystem would take you approximately 8 million years.
Hang on, I'm not sure I know where these numbers are coming from.
1PB is - what? 2^50 bytes? That looks closer to 2^64 than your figures indicate. I'd imagine an exabyte a year ought to be topping out after 16 years. I'm missing about half-a-dozen orders of magnitude somewhere it seems.
1PB is indeed 2^50 bytes, but filesystems don't address on the byte, but on the block (1K, 4K, 8k, ...). The numbers I'm using assume the filesystem addresses on the sector, which is unrealistically small. Jack it up to a 16K blocksize and you jump a few hundred ZB in size.
You have to be able to *seek* on a byte boundary. Hence doesn't a "64-bit" filesystem indeed mean "only" 2^64 bytes?
Only for the file you're seeking on.
Yeah, okay, there's multiple definitions of what "64-bit filesystem" is referring to. So what are FreeBSD's current filesystem limitations? 2^64 bytes files, and 2^64 blocks per filesystem? But I seem to recall some problems as people were approaching a terabyte or two ???
Gary
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