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Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.


From: Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
Subject: Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:02:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4i

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:52:52AM -0600, Tom Hart wrote:
> Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:46:13PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >>The reason for the limit is because the address space on IA32 architecture
> >>is 32 bit.  Now, you _could_ of course change the kernel interfaces to 
> >>allow
> >>for larger memory objects and only limit mapping windows to 4gb.  This 
> >>might
> >
> >
> >Or you could just use a 64bit machine such as an alpha ? :)
> >
> >Always looking for a hardware solution to a software problem,
> 
> So then the problem goes away *for now*. Remember that hard drive sizes 
> have this habit of doubling every year or so. Isn't this a re-statement 
> of "640 K ought to be enough for anyone"?

True, it's not a solution forever.

Cheers,

p2.




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