On Monday 21 November 2005 18:15, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> 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, petabytes?
> > 18 Really big lumps of data we won't be using for a while yet.
>
> The prolem is not about file size. It is about for example unique inode
> numbers. If you have a file system which spans multiple volumnes and maybe
> nodes, you need more unqiue methods of addressing the files and blocks.
18 quintillion inodes are enough to give every ipv4 address on the internet 4
billion unique inodes. I take it this is not enough space for Sun to work
out a reasonable allocation strategy in?
Rob
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