Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> >
> >> In article <200511211252.04217.rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

It means "it's all moot."

-- 
~Randy
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