Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> What does "it's all mute" mean?
>>
> Should be spelled "moot". It's a legal term that means "it doesn't matter".

Yes, I am well aware of what moot means, had you used that.


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