From b3e467a93986ee525a2f9c73364839dfcbc88738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Stuart P. Bentley" Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:10:26 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 2^60 is an exbibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exbibyte --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5ec5e3f1b..bed66353b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ When a client needs to read a file based on , 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.