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Re: Review of Thomas's >2GB ext2fs proposal


From: Neal H. Walfield
Subject: Re: Review of Thomas's >2GB ext2fs proposal
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:19:25 -0400
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At 17 Aug 2004 03:07:14 -0700,
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> 
> Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> writes:
> 
> > You are probably confused because "map" can have 2 meanings:
> > 
> > 1. Mapping page of address space to page of pager.
> > 2. Mapping page of pager to disk block.
> > 
> > And the current ext2fs relies heavily on the ability to remap (2).
> 
> Let's reserve "map" for the former, because that's the meaning it has
> in Mach.

I agree.  Let's agree to call the later an association.




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