hanasaki wrote:

http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/

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Interesting possibilities- if physical and logical locations need not coincide for pool elements then some implications for scaling arise . I am not a filesystem guru by any stretch however to a reasonably versed layman this seems to have potential .

Question is will it be OS or ?

Last take is that the line closing the piece where engineer Jeff Bonwick makes an IMHO dangerous statement .

Logically, the next question is if ZFS' 128 bits is enough. According to Bonwick, it has to be. "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans."

Any takers for a bet that Jeff Bonwick's assessment soon joins that of Wm Gates - "640 k is enough ."

Oren Beck

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" Size DOES matter "