17 Feb
2006
17 Feb
'06
11:36 a.m.
jeremyw@al.com.au (Jeremy Webber) writes:
IMHO NetApp need to pull out all the stops to remove the 16TB limit on the size of a WAFL file system. In our environment it's a killer, especially now we have flexvols.
This must be coming soon, surely? Why else would NetApp have changed the disk block addreses in WAFL from 32-bit to 64-bit values? (see the toasters thread "Moving to flexible volumes increases number of index blocks" in July 2005)
I expect that traditional volumes will be stuck at 16TB max indefinitely.
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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk