> 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.