On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:39:50PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris_at_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. http://kerneltrap.org/node/323 Kris
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