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>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:

[ on i386 mfs ]

>>  Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit
>> pointers in i386?

Kris> Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and
Kris> not just byte-level.

regardless, unlike disks, there is no sector pointers in memory ---
the memory allocator is still fundamentally limited.

Dave.

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