Quoting Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I try to post this announcement to bug-hurd since some days, but my > mails are ignored. So I post it to debian-hurd.
There are some problems with the gnu.org mailserver. > Changes in RC1+20040304: > > * ihash* -> hurd_ihash* (use revised libihash API) > * block << log2_block_size -> (off_t) block << log2_block_size (`block' > is usually 32-bit and stores larger than 4G didn't work with old code) Great, you found it. :) > * sleep(1) is called only when all cached blocks are referenced > (improves performance). Oh, nice. But is it possible to use conditions instead of sleep? Or at least sleep shorter? > This fixes what Andrew Mitchell reported to me on 2003-10-28. I'm not > 100% sure if what Marco Gerards reported is fixed by this change. > Marco, would you do some tests again? Of course. This change is that 4GB problem you mentioned, right? > And don't forget that if you test the patch, you'll probably want > patched e2fsprogs too. You can get the patch from > http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/ext3fs/ . It applies cleanly > to e2fsprogs_1.35-2 (with some offsets, but without *.rej files). Right. I have not used this yet. It would be nice if someone could make a package for this as well. Thanks, Marco
