That's ironic, given that last I heard anything about Hurd, it was that partition size was constrained by bus width (i.e., it couldn't access disks larger than

That's ironic, given that last I heard anything about Hurd, it was that partition size was constrained by bus width (i.e., it couldn't access disks larger than 2 GiB on most computers at the time), but since everyone was moving to 64-bit architectures soon enough, that wouldn't be an issue. (Not sure where I heard that particular excuse, but the explanation why is here: [1]) 32-bit userland makes Hurd basically unusable for many server applications, where multi-gigabyte in-memory lookup tables are critical for performance. [1] https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44492&cid=4622920 https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44492&cid=46...