Re: Memory Manangement&FileSystems

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

this is really Neal's domain, but he is currently mostly off-line, so
I'll give it a go.

At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:46:41 -0300 (ART),
Fortes Marcelo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> How does The HURD on L4 would mananges Virtual Memory?
> There is documentation about it?

The current idea is to let each task manage its virtual memory domain
itself, providing only physical memory resources.
 
> is it possible to have a VM Server i user space that
> at least do things like Mach VM?

Yes, it is possible.  It is not what we want to do though, currently.
 
> And about File system server how does it works in
> HURD?i dont remamber if The HURD on Mach have UFS or
> FFS or ext2

How filesystems work is different from the question which filesystem
format to use.  Filesystems should mediate access to the blocks on the
disk, so that's what they will do (d'oh!).

> What will be the default file system for HURD on L4?

ext4fs :)

Thanks,
Marcus