Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3802-1005105378-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 06 Nov 2001 20:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32420 invoked by uid 510); 7 Nov 2001 04:13:04 -0000 Received: from n18.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.68) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 04:13:04 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3802-1005105378-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by n18.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2001 03:56:22 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 7 Nov 2001 03:56:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 54220 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 03:56:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Nov 2001 03:56:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 03:56:18 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fA73uNu07917 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:56:23 -0800 Message-Id: <200111070356.fA73uNu07917@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:56:23 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Linux.breaks.100-Petabyte.ceiling] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Linux breaks 100-Petabyte ceiling By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 07/11/2001 at 01:19 GMT We almost forgot to mention this, but Linux recently became the first desktop OS to support enormously large file sizes. How large? 144 Petabytes, or 144,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A Petabyte is roughly a thousand Terabytes, with a Terabyte being roughly a thousand Gigabytes, of course. This came up in conversation when we were chatting to Andre Hedrick, who looks after the Linux IDE subsystem, in our story about Mount Rainier CDs last week. Hedrick's code exploits extensions to the ATA-133 spec, which uses 48-bit rather than 28-bit addressing. The drivers are included in the 2.4.13-ac6 kernel tree, says Andre, or alternatively you can download them from his site. The 144 Petabyte figure is obtained by raising two to the power of 48, and multiplying it by 512. A big arse number. Some of the big enterprise vendors have claimed to support Petabyte storage for some time, and of course BeOS has supported 18-Petabyte files for many moons now, but the new drivers comfortably put Linux in front. We haven't heard of applications that demand such large files, although our most recent expense claims come pretty close. ® ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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