> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:27:03PM -0800, John Milford wrote:
> > Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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. ;-)
> >
> > Ok, what I was getting at is that 1TB is a very large
> > single filesystem, but I can understand as time goes by this will
> > become more important. If it is omething that will really help
> > peolple I would be willing to try to do something to fix it, but
> > if these types of filesystems are not within reach now, then it
> > may be a better use of effort to wait on this issue.
>
> Joe seem to want one. This size is certaintly within the reach of an
> ISP now, and disks just keep getting bigger. My administrative bias is
> that partitioning for a reason other then policy should be avoided and
> thus I'd love to see filesystem size support keep ahead of volume sizes
> where possiable. That said, unless someone gives me a very substantial
> amount of money to build a cluster at work, I'm not going to be building
> any TB file systems for a few more years.
Well, I just wanted the thrill of it.
I should be building additional machines throughout the year. If anyone is
seriously interested in work on terabyte filesystem issues, I may be able
to shanghai one for a month or two and provide access to it. I may even be
able to push it over the 2TB mark (barely). I do not have the
qualifications or need to be doing this myself, though, alas.
72GB disks will be available later this year. Expect 2.6TB servers. :-)
... Joe
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