Looks like ZFS finally met its match - 455 EXABYTE storage on a single gram..

[traderjay]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...torage-could-create-mankinds-permanent-record

Fascinating read and not sure if a new file system will replace ZFS to handle this type of storage requirements :) This article certainly touched on an important point, all of mankind's knowledge are stored somewhere and needs to retrieved by future generations for reference, research or improvement. If they are lost, it is a loss for humanity in general. From a historical perspective, the burning of the Library of Alexandria is one such example. The natural decay of egyptian papyrus documents is another.

 

[nightshade00013]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...torage-could-create-mankinds-permanent-record

Fascinating read and not sure if a new file system will replace ZFS to handle this type of storage requirements :) This article certainly touched on an important point, all of mankind's knowledge are stored somewhere and needs to retrieved by future generations for reference, research or improvement. If they are lost, it is a loss for humanity in general. From a historical perspective, the burning of the Library of Alexandria is one such example. The natural decay of egyptian papyrus documents is another.

ZFS is designed to support 256 zebibytes or approx 262144 exbibytes. I think it's up to the task. Though it is an impressive amount of data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

 

[jgreco]

ZFS is designed to support 256 zebibytes or approx 262144 exbibytes. I think it's up to the task. Though it is an impressive amount of data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

That's a pure load of bovine excrement. The reality is that ZFS might theoretically be able to address that much storage, but in practice it isn't going to be able to, not without a lot of re-engineering.

It's like the IPv6 problem. People like to *SAY* that a nearly infinite number of networks can be attached to the new IPv6 Internet, but the practical reality is that the current state of BGP and routers means that we're limited to probably no more than a million routes, a number that's up from about 150,000 routes back around 1998. Just merely increasing the address space didn't magically make it possible to actually exploit it all.

 

[nightshade00013]

Oh I fully agree, then again I think that using DNA to store that much data is in the realm of theory as well.

Not to mention that for ZFS to hit such a large amount of storage capacity the files would have to be a certain minimum size. I highly doubt we could hit the maximum with pictures and mp3's let alone m4v's unless ZFS is extended to support a larger magnitude of files.

One of the biggest problems I see with IPV6 is unless someone steps up and says "All IPV4 has to be killed off by a certain date like what was done with the US change over from analog to digital TV it will never actually happen. Even then someone will likely have to be grandfathered in for a time for some reason or another. But then everyone will be clambering for subsidized hardware to change over from one to another. Oh the headaches , and then who is going to be able to remember that static ip address. I think there was a good reason why phone numbers used to be only five numbers long. It's too hard to remember much more than that.

Then again my wife can't believe that I memorized the wpa2 hash for the WiFi and no it's not something easy, it was actually created by one of the funky password generators

 

[jgreco]

I'll totally take some subsidized hardware IPv6 routers. I've still got a pair of NetStar "Goes Real Fast" routers (now there's an obscure reference!)