Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:14:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what is our answer to ZFS?
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, 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?

It means "it's all moot."

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~Randy
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