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nutznboltz
(1 posting since 07 Jul 2010)
All the disk space you *may* use. 07 July 2010 21:19
One of the jokes Hurd has for you is the 1GB file system limitation.
Here is the recipe for fail: Start with the brilliant idea to
memory-map the entire file system, fold in the limitations of a
32-bit address space and divide into portions even smaller than that
since 100% of your address space can't be used for file system.
Serves 1GB.
http://www.google.com/search?q=hurd+1gb+bug
Decades later when 64-bit address space would immediately alleviate
this issue by providing a much larger address space continue the joke
by not being ported to 64-bits.
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