Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
>Besides that, we must learn from the history. Many years ago, nobody could
>imagine that computers would have more than 1MB memory. So the braindead Gate
>A20 had to be invented. Likewise, nobody could imagine that hard disks would
>exceed 500MB. So LBA mode had to
On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:22, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > I also don't think we could find any file big enough to need 3 levels of
> > indirection.
>
> It can be a problem if someone uses the loopback command.
It's a good example.
Besides that, we must learn from the history. Many years ago, nob
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:43, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Right, I have done that now :).
Thank you.
> Because I had to choose between Linux and GNU/Hurd applications, I
> have taken the liberty as poster to post this on GNU/Hurd
> applications:
Oh, there is no way to specify "for all operating s
Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Can you tell me how to reproduce it?
>
> I had problems with one of those (damn, I can't remember now) on 720kB
> floppy (erm... not really important by itself, but couldn't it be a
> symptom of a deeper bug ?) but it was a wh
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Marco Gerards wrote:
> Can you tell me how to reproduce it?
I had problems with one of those (damn, I can't remember now) on 720kB
floppy (erm... not really important by itself, but couldn't it be a
symptom of a deeper bug ?) but it was a while ago -
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:07, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> What I do is talking to people on IRC, to other developers, etc. But
>> giving talks helps, so does announcing the release on info-gnu.
>> Perhaps someone can write a kerneltrap article abo
The first reference I could find in the gcc doc about unnamed union was
in 3.1.1,
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.1.1/gcc/Unnamed-Fields.html#Unnamed%20Fields
If someone is however interrested, I have a version of grub (at least 6
months old) which compiles with 2.95.
diff -ru grub2/Cha
Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
>> Try to make an fsck on this partition and repair the errors if any.
>> If it doesn't work could you send the characteristics of your ext3 FS?
>> (like size)
>
> I'm quite sure there is a bug in ext fs handler (and probab
