[MINC-users] Fw: voxel_loop-like hard-disk access for arbitrary voxel positions

[Michel Audette]

> Forwarding to minc-users... 2nd try...
>
> Michel
>
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > I'm working late. Thanks for your kind response. I'll copy to
minc-users,
> > because others might contribute to and/or benefit from the discussion.
> >
> > Someone (Andreas Jaeger, who wrote a homepage on LFS
> > http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html ) has told me that LFS works for
> > accessing a file of large (>2*32) size, but not for using a swap space
of
> > large size. This is contrary to what I expected, but I don't know of
> anyone
> > commenting positively that LFS on a 32-bit machine does entail access to
> > large swap. I wonder if any other minc-user might chime in?
> >
> > While on the subject, I wonder if you or any minc-user knows of anyone
who
> > compiled and used minc software on a 64-bit machine, or conversely of
any
> > problems going to a 64-bit platform?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > Michel Audette, Ph.D.,
> > Research Fellow, Surgical Simulation,
> > Surgical Assist Group,
> > AIST,
> > Namiki 1-2,
> > Tsukuba, Japan,
> > 305-8564
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Andrew Janke" <andrew_janke@iinet.net.au>
> > > To: "Michel Audette" <m.audette@aist.go.jp>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:35 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [MINC-users] voxel_loop-like hard-disk access for
arbitrary
> > > voxel positions
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Michel Audette wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm thinking of going with a LFS-ready Linux distribution with my
> > 32-bit
> > > > > machine: is this feasible to your knowledge?
> > > >
> > > > Feasible.  The usuall tack is to use multiple swap partitions to get
> to
> > > the RAM
> > > > requirements you are likely going to need.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > a
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