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


From: Thomas Bushnell BSG
Subject: Re: Review of Thomas's >2GB ext2fs proposal
Date: 17 Aug 2004 03:07:14 -0700
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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.





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