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

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Sep 23 00:58:45 UTC 2007


Hehe, didn't see you opened a new thread. So to maximize confusion:

Congrats to the new Magma version, great to see this living! I wonder  
what became of my Magma storage backend for SqueakSource - it was  
only a hack but *much* more scalable than any of the other backends.

- Bert -

On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:19 , Chris Muller wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
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