Re: Project Suggestions
> A nice project would be looking into completely removing the 1GB
> limit on filesystems/stores (perhaps for the 1wk part). Also looking
> at ways to improve the speed of filesystem access for the hurd,
> especially for ext2, would be great.
I think that this will take a bit longer than a week.
> Of course, I have limited knowledge of hurd internals, so I don't even
> know what part(s) of the hurd/mach setup is causing these limitations.
ext2fs and ufs memory map the partition. I32 has a 4GB virtual address
space of which 2GB is owned by the kernel. Of the remaining 2GB, a task
has stack, the program image etc. That leaves just over a gig of
continuous space.
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