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Re: partition size



On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:05:46AM -0700, david-hurd@allunix.com wrote:
> I have heard that there is a partition size limitation with hurd. This 
> partition for the Hurd should be kept  around 500megs?

1 GB actually.
 
> My question is, is the limitation in the boot loader?

No, the amount of virtual memory the mach kernel can adress at a single
time.

There are already patches to fix this, but they are kept back for stability.

(People checking out an old CVS version can access them if they want to, but
nobody will help you with this, I think).

Thanks,
Marcus

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