So if you were to use the hurd, you'd have to run n two-gigabyte shards instead of n/4 eight-gigabyte shards. This is not a big deal. The hurd has debilitating

So if you were to use the hurd, you'd have to run n two-gigabyte shards instead of n/4 eight-gigabyte shards. This is not a big deal. The hurd has debilitating problem, this isn't one of them.