Changes file limit (was: Re: [ANN] Magma 1.0r40)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 23:19:11 UTC 2007


I think the changes file is limited by a different constraint internal
to the image.

On 9/22/07, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > What "2GB file-addressability" limit are you referring to? There is no
> > such thing. Files have been 64 bit for a couple of years now so unless
> > you run some really, really old VMs that limit doesn't exists.
>
> So, does that mean that the .changes file collapse in 3.9 was
> unnecessary? I thought this limit was the cause of the
> compresssed sources in 3.9.
>
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