ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)
> Some customers already have datasets on the order of a petabyte, or 2^50 bytes. Thus the 64-bit capacity limit of 264 bytes is only 14 doublings away. Moore's Law
for storage predicts that capacity will continue to double every 9-12 months, which means we'll start to hit the 64-bit limit in about a decade. Storage systems tend to live for several decades, so it would be foolish to create a new one without anticipating the needs that will surely arise within its projected lifetime.<p>So exactly 14 years passed, does someone have 2^64 bytes for a single ZFS filesystem (or anything close to that)? I don't really feel like storage capacity (or 1/price) doubles every year.