Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>]

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".

Jeff
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