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From: | Tom Hart |
Subject: | Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion. |
Date: | Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:52:52 -0600 |
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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 mightOr 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"?
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