Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, there are multi-petabyte systems out there. Though you may
> disagree, I personally don't think its unreasonable to expect such
> filesystems to pass the 16 exabyte range within the next 20 years.
> Neither did the ZFS designers, hence the 128-bit capability.
>
> Note that we are talking about filesystems, not individual disks. ZFS
> filesystems can span any number of disks, just as you could achieve by
> layering on top of a volume manager or through a distributed filesystem.
> Besides just being flat out larger, the growth rate of filesystem size
> not directly proportional to the growth rate of disks.
So people would need 20,000 disks then....
The biggest FS I know is 100 TB build with Linux and ATA disks.
AFAIR, they have to replace 1-3 disks per day....
Jörg
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