On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Jeremy Hoel wrote: > This little bit here is awesome and made me laugh. Thanks! Agreed. Warren wins the Internet today. > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> >> [*] The absolute XFS filesystem size limit is about 8 million >> terabytes, which requires about 500 cubic meters of the densest >> HDDs available today. You'd need 13 standard shipping containers >> (1 TEU) to transport them all, without any space for packing >> material. If we add 20% more disks for a reasonable level of >> redundancy and put them in 24-disk 4U chassis and mount those >> chassis in full-size racks, we need about half a soccer field of >> floor space -- something like ~4000 m^2 -- after accounting for >> walking space, network switches, redundant power, and whatnot to >> run it all. It's so many HDDs that you'd need four or five >> full-time employees in 3 shifts to respond to drive failures fast >> enough to keep an 8 EiB array from falling over due to insufficient >> redundancy. You simply wouldn't make a single XFS filesystem that >> big today, so QED: effectively unlimited.