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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Pascal <pa5ca1@gmx.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Maximum file system size of XFS?
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:10:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513BDD6E.7010507@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130309233940.3b7c0910@thinky>

On 3/9/13 4:39 PM, Pascal wrote:

> Hello Ric,
> 
> thank you for your answer. I am aware that there is a difference
> between the maximum size under practical conditions and the theoretical
> maximum. But I am looking for this theoretical number to use in within
> in my thesis comparing file systems.

A thesis comparing actual scalability would be much more interesting
than one comparing, essentially, the container size chosen for a disk
block.  One could quickly write a filesystem which "can" be as large
as a yottabyte, but it wouldn't really *mean* anything.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-10  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-09 20:51 Maximum file system size of XFS? Pascal
2013-03-09 22:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-09 22:39   ` Pascal
2013-03-10  1:10     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2013-03-10  7:54       ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 11:02         ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-11 16:15           ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2013-03-11 16:22             ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-03-11  1:55     ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 21:45 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-11 21:57   ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-11 22:01     ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-11 22:04       ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-03-20 18:26         ` Pascal
2013-03-11 22:19     ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-11 22:10   ` Martin Steigerwald

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