On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:23:34PM +0100, Niels M?ller wrote: > Jon Arney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm running into a problem, however, when I mount (set translator for) > > one of the filesystems. > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hdc1 2015984 739996 1173580 39% /hurd > > /dev/hdc2 5039592 1605844 3177744 34% /hurd/src > > /dev/hdb1 958977 703747 205690 78% /mnt/hdd1 > > There's a known limitation in the ext2 translator at about 1GB, so you > are not supposed to be able to mount your first two ext2 partitions > under the hurd at all, which should be mentioned in any Hurd FAQ. But > I think you would get errors when the translator is first activated, > before you get the chance to access files on it.
The one 1GB limit is a calculation bases on estimated values. It's not really a hard limit. It depends on a lot of factors, the real limit could even differ between systems. Testing different partition sizes, the limit on my system was around the 1.8GB (thus I've a lot of 1.8GB partitions on my hard drive). It could be possible to mount the /hurd partition. It's not known what happens if ext2fs runs for a long time on a very big partition which size is around the limit. I think it's not really impossible that it causes strange behaviour (i.e. crashes). If you want to be safe, I'll advice to make your partitions around the 1.5 or 1.6 GB. The /hurd/src will never work because the is only 4GB of virtual memory, you just can't mmap() a 5 GB partition. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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