On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
They've been working on hurd for over a decade, without anything usable. For a long time, and possibly still, hard drives over a few GB were not supported because they memory mapped the entire hard drive and any hard drive larger than main memory was unusable. With poor decision making like that, I have no faith whatsoever in hurd ever reaching the level of usability, much less being good.
The issue is with address space, not memory size. But this isn't really that surprising. Mach requires a disk-type device to use as a swap/paging device. Once you've implemented that, it's real easy to just map additional partitions. Fixing this to allow larger partitions can be added later, but doing via mapping is essentially no work. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
