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Re: Installation
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Niels Möller |
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Re: Installation |
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06 Jun 2003 20:57:55 +0200 |
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Phil Reardon <pcr@pcrt.com> writes:
> Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to
> remove it?
So work is done, I don't know the current status. Check the archives
for the bug-hurd mailinglist.
The root of the problem is that original version of the ufs and ext2
servers mmapped the entire partition. A 32-bit address space is only
4GB, and then the largest free contiguous area is typically somewhere
between 1 and 2 GB. Obviosly the person who wrote that code believed
that 64-bit hardware would get common long before 10 GB disks ;-)
/Niels