From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:26:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731202638.A22765@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020731131620.M15238@lustre.cfs>; from braam@clusterfs.com on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0600
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0600, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just been told that some "limitations" of the following kind will
> remain:
> page index = unsigned long
> ino_t = unsigned long
>
> Lustre has definitely been asked to support much larger files than
> 16TB. Also file systems with a trillion files have been requested by
> one of our supporters (you don't want to know who, besides I've no
> idea how many bits go in a trillion, but it's more than 32).
What about using 64bit machines? ..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 19:16 Peter J. Braam
2002-07-31 19:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-07-31 20:04 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-07-31 20:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-02 17:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-03 3:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 5:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 7:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 7:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 9:28 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-05 13:04 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-05 13:42 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-05 13:56 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 14:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 17:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 0:16 ` jw schultz
2002-08-06 9:48 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-31 21:07 ` Jan Harkes
2002-07-31 21:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 3:51 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-01 12:01 ` Mark Mielke
2002-08-02 0:09 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-02 12:17 ` Chris Mason
2002-08-02 12:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-08-02 13:56 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-02 14:06 ` Steve Lord
2002-08-02 15:10 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 15:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 17:01 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 17:25 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 17:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 18:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:31 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 18:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:59 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-01 12:01 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
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