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@marcan What the fuck, why would you even link sector sizes with memory pages.

@lanodan @marcan the MMU / mmap() can only map pages between kernel space and userland, so it *does* make a lot of sense

@funkylab @lanodan @marcan@treehouse.systems No. It's a terrible design choice, but we're stuck with it until everything moves to folios.

@Conan_Kudo @lanodan @marcan ah sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a *good* idea, just that if you're designing something to be easy to implement, going sector=page is an easy choice.

@Conan_Kudo @lanodan @marcan somewhat relatedly, I haven't been following things, but did memory folios actually get a lot of traction?

Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

@funkylab @lanodan @marcan@treehouse.systems I don't know if that's something separate from the folios work that is going on for all the filesystems, but if it isn't, then yes it's being adopted slowly everywhere.