[linux-lvm] Re : [linux-lvm] Virtual File Drivers for a VoD(Video on Demand) application Project

[Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)]

Le 15.10.2003 18:46, Greg Freemyer a écrit :
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:21, balasubramanya wrote:
 >
> > Some of the File System specifications are as follows:
> >
> >   Block size : 4096 bytes
> >   Large File size: 1 G byte
> >   Number of Maximum Large files: 1M
> 
> 1 GB per file with a million files is an Exabyte.  That is certainly
> pushing the limits of todays technology and is not supported in any
> released vanilla kernel.org kernel.  I believe it is supported by the
> 2.6.0-test series of kernels, but I have not heard of anyone building
> a
> filesystem that big yet.

I think 1Gb per file with 1M files is "only" one Petabyte?

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