On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:42:57PM +0200, Michael Schuster - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:30:44PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > >>I don't know much about ZFS, but Sun states this is a "128 bits" > >>filesystem. How will you handle this in regards to the FreeBSD > >>kernel interface that is already struggling to be 64 bits > >>compliant ? (I'm stating this based on this URL [1], but maybe > >>it's not fully up-to-date.) > > > >128 bits is not my goal, but I do want all the other goodies:) > > are you going to attempt on-disk compatibility? Please note that the '128-bitness' of ZFS currently only comes into play in the on-disk format, and the allowed size of the storage pool. This should be very easy to maintain compatability with. However, each filesystem is currently limited to 64-bits, due largely to the lack of 128-bit support in the POSIX interfaces. So there's very little 128-bit code floating around except at the SPA layer, and as long as you have an unsigned 64-bit type there shouldn't be any problems at higher layers. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrockReceived on Tue Aug 22 2006 - 13:11:11 UTC
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