Re: first thread

[Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Christof Damian wrote:
> Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Christof Damian wrote:
> > 
> > > > "What is your favorite kernel feature that _didn't_
> > > >  make it in time for 2.2?"
> > >
> > > - large file support for ia32 (for big mysql databases)
> > 
> > I had read "make it in time for 2.2" as "was complete but not
> > merged".  It will be a nice thing to have (although I'd rather
> > just buy an alpha or sparc64 :)
> 
> well, there was a patch published, but I didn't see any comment on
> it by the main kernel deveoplers.

That's because the comments were on one of the subsystem lists,
I believe it was linux-mm or linux-smp...

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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