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

[Tom Hart]

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 might
>
>
> Or 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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