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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next prev parent 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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