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It's also worth noting that file system developers should think about their file system fifty to a hundred years out. Flash drives today often still come prefor
by bastawhiz 9y ago
It's also worth noting that file system developers should think about their file system fifty to a hundred years out. Flash drives today often still come preformatted with FAT32, twenty two years after its release in 1996. Up until a couple years ago, my dad had an external drive formatted with FAT16--a thirty year old file system.
If ZFS lives as long as the FATs have (three decades) even at a doubling every 34 months, that means six remaining doublings before 2035. Not quite 2^64, but that's on the liberal side. Half that (doubling every 17 months) is twelve doublings, which is easily over 2^64.
- ianai 9y agoAnd let’s not forget all the crazy (better word?) features like independence from indianness. They built the file system with an eye toward versatility.
- mnw21cam 9y ago> indianness That has to be one of the worst typos I have ever seen.
- arghwhat 9y agoThe filesystem does not share any culture with Native America and India.
- MatthewWilkes 9y agoThe term does derive from Gullivers Travels, where the big endians and the little endians were both to be found on an island in the Indian ocean. Of course, the real reason for the mistake is that phone spelling correction will convert endian to Indian.
- ianai 9y agoIt felt wrong at the time but it’s been too long for me to remember the correct spelling.
- Moter8 9y ago>If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits. >That's enough to survive Moore's Law until I'm dead, and after that, it's not my problem ;)
- AlphaSite 9y agoHFS stuck around for around 30 years as well. And is still shipped on some systems.