Ouch 16TB!!!
16TB, this is the limit for major filesystems, including 64bits Windows & 64bits Linux.
16TB it’s huge for you, but really little for me, managing a big file-sharing website. Especially if you consider RAID-5, that is usually used in some bay with 7 hard-drives, for 6X capacity of 1 hard-drive: today it’s 12TB storage, tomorrow with 3TB hard-drives, we will go as far as 18TB : too far!
So we won’t be able to extend the capacity of our filesystems without partitioning them, nor on 64bit Linux with ext3 fs or ext4 fs (stupid guys!), nor on 64bit Windows (hopefully I avoid this platform!).
The only OS that support more is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 1024TB on one partition, even on 32bits computers (wether PowerPC or Intel), and was available 5 years ago. Again Apple do the right choice, to work for the future, where Microsoft is failing and even Linux Kernel and filesystem is weak!
Thanks Apple
PS: You could add more than 16TB on Windows and Linux, partitioning, changing cluster size, changing filesystem, etc. But by default, nor 64bit Windows nor 64bits Linux support 16TB!
