On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'll grant you that there might be some shops that will have to deal with 16 
> million terabytes before too long. That is what 64 bits will address. Is 
> anyone there yet? It will be a long time before 128 bits is not enough.

I think one of the folks involved in Solaris zfs (not to be confused with OMVS 
zFS) calculated that the entropy generated by a full 128-bit address space 
would result in enough heat to boil all the oceans on earth. So I believe 128 
bits is enough for a long time.

-- 
Curtis Pew ([email protected])
ITS Systems Core
The University of Texas at Austin

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