DoD NSA

• How to deal with a trillion files?

  • At 256 bytes of metadata per file -> 256TB just for the file system metadata for one trillion files
  • File System resiliency
  • Backups? Forget it.

• File Creation Rate is a challenge – 32,000 file per second for 1 year will generate 1 trillion files

• How to search for any given file

• How to search for any given piece of information inside all the files

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