Re: Filesystem size limit?

[Brooks Davis]

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. ;-)

-- Brooks

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