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| author | chrislusf <chris.lu@gmail.com> | 2015-01-29 07:40:32 -0800 |
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| committer | chrislusf <chris.lu@gmail.com> | 2015-01-29 07:40:32 -0800 |
| commit | 79e84ddaedcf18b2e0c03912b559a011ce943d34 (patch) | |
| tree | d571932a86b07c3b28f66efc9405a673bacd1be5 | |
| parent | 440af8033de477cc41004846f50348d13defd612 (diff) | |
| parent | b3e467a93986ee525a2f9c73364839dfcbc88738 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #71 from stuartpb/patch-3
2^60 is an exbibyte
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@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ When a client needs to read a file based on <volume id, file key, file cookie>, Please see the example for details on write-read process. ### Storage Size ### -In current implementation, each volume can be size of 8x2^32^=32G bytes. This is because of aligning contents to 8 bytes. We can be easily increased to 64G, or 128G, or more, by changing 2 lines of code, at the cost of some wasted padding space due to alignment. +In current implementation, each volume can be size of 8x2^32 bytes (32GiB). This is because of aligning contents to 8 bytes. We can be easily increased to 64G, or 128G, or more, by changing 2 lines of code, at the cost of some wasted padding space due to alignment. -There can be 2^32^ volumes. So total system size is 8 x 2^32^ x 2^32^ = 8 x 4G x 4G = 128GG bytes. (Sorry, I don't know the word for giga of giga bytes.) +There can be 2^32 volumes. So total system size is 8 x 2^32 bytes x 2^32 = 8 x 4GiB x 4Gi = 128EiB (2^67 bytes, or 128 exbibytes). Each individual file size is limited to the volume size. |
