From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:47:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20061018204755.GB19194@spearce.org> References: <4535590C.4000004@utoronto.ca> <200610180057.25411.jnareb@gmail.com> <20061018053647.GA3507@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20061018185225.GU20017@pasky.or.cz> <20061018185907.GV20017@pasky.or.cz> <7vy7rd1m4q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vr6x51ks3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 18 22:48:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaIKy-0000KD-Na for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:48:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422956AbWJRUsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422949AbWJRUsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:48:04 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:63129 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422956AbWJRUsB (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:48:01 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GaIKR-0006FK-Te; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:47:55 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B71CE20E42A; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:47:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vr6x51ks3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre 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.