From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964791AbVKVAYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:24:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964792AbVKVAYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:24:44 -0500 Received: from [67.137.28.188] ([67.137.28.188]:19592 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964791AbVKVAYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:24:44 -0500 Message-ID: <43825168.6050404@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:59:52 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Eckenfels Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what is our answer to ZFS? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >In article <200511211252.04217.rob@landley.net> you wrote: > > >>I believe that on 64 bit platforms, Linux has a 64 bit clean VFS. Python says >>2**64 is 18446744073709551616, and that's roughly: >>18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes >>18,446,744,073,709 megs >>18,446,744,073 gigs >>18,446,744 terabytes >>18,446 ... what are those, pedabytes (petabytes?) >>18 zetabytes >> There you go. I deal with this a lot so, those are the names. Linux is currently limited to 16 TB per VFS mount point, it's all mute, unless VFS gets fixed. mmap won't go above this at present. Jeff