From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:47:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Message-ID: <20061018204755.GB19194@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6x51ks3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > Ah true.  I missed the "thin" pack.
> >
> > Any idea why we should still prevent this?  It is not like it was a 
> > technical limitation.
> 
> It is a technical limitation.  We have never assumed that the
> virtual address space is big enough to hold more than one whole
> pack mmapped at the same time.

Even though its not big enough for some larger packs on a 32
bit system.
 
> Lifting this needs the piecemeal mmap() change somebody was
> talking about.
> 
> I might bite the bullet and do that myself but I've been hoping
> to get an appliable patch from somewhere else ;-).

I might be able to do it this weekend.  I'll try to spend some time
on it.  You'll either see a patch series, or you won't.  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.