Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html