Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

From: Jeff V. Merkey
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 12:33:34 EST


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?

Should be spelled "moot". It's a legal term that means "it doesn't matter".

Jeff
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