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Diffstat (limited to 'faq')
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/debugging_translators.mdwn | 10 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index fa5105bd..654379a3 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed. -IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. +IDE disk drivers (`hd*`) however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. -The gnumach AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. +The gnumach AHCI disk driver (`sd*`) and rumpkernel drivers (`wd*`) support up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. You can have a bigger disk, you just should not put disk partitions beyond these limits for the drivers to be able to read from them. diff --git a/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn b/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn index 1bd0deec..031b5778 100644 --- a/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn +++ b/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn @@ -11,12 +11,4 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag faq/development]] -In order to [[debug|debugging]] translators and being able to step into glibc -during it, on Debian you need the `hurd-dbgsym` and `libc0.3-dbg` packages installed. -If you need to debug the initialization of the translator, start the translator -like - - $ settrans -Pa /foo /usr/bin/env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug /hurd/foofs - -The `-P` option will make it -pause and you will be able to attach [[debugging/GDB]] to the process. +See [[/hurd/debugging/translator]]. |