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/
>> Help improve Squeak Documentation: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/808
>>
>>
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