On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: > > > Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B > > > sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). > > [...] > > > Crappy marketing articles. > > > > This one's good though. fortune(6) worthy, I mean: > > > > Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of > > earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without > > boiling the oceans. > > Hmmmm... that explains the global warming then...
I once calculated that there were sufficient IPv6 addresses (another
128 bit quantity) to provide a distinct address for every cluster of
about 10^12 atoms within planet Earth. 10^12 atoms sounds like quite
a lot, but it is much smaller than a typical bacterium and a hell of a
lot smaller than any transistor ever manufactured: even if you
converted the entire planet into a data storage system, you wouldn't
have enough matter to build a filesystem that big, let alone power
supplies, cabling, support structures etc.
Cheers,
Matthew
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