This little bit here is awesome and made me laugh. Thanks! 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >