Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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. Let's see, how many grad students did the first digital computer need to replace the burned-out tubes? Was it about that many? But I agree, he does win the 'Net for today. I propose we award him one (1) valuable resource... say, an IPv4 address. <g> mark