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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:39:50PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Kris" =3D=3D Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
>=20
> [ on i386 mfs ]
>=20
> >>  Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit
> >> pointers in i386?
>=20
> Kris> Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and
> Kris> not just byte-level.
>=20
> regardless, unlike disks, there is no sector pointers in memory ---
> the memory allocator is still fundamentally limited.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/323

Kris
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