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

[Peter 'p2' De Schrijver]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:46:13PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:05:13AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote:
> > Another thing I wonder: Why do memory 
> > objects have a maximum size of 4GB? Isn't it possible to create a memory 
> > object 
> > with the size of the entire store and use mapping windows? (Or am I 
> > confused 
> > again? :)). Can someone please describe how this works in more detail if 
> > I'm 
> > wrong? I assume more people are confused by this.
> 
> 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,

p2.