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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+# Large Stores
+
+The `ext2fs` translator from the upstream Hurd code base can only handle file
+systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB.
+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+## Ognyan's Work
+
+  * Ognyan Kulev, [[*Supporting Large ext2 File Systems in the
+    Hurd*|ogi-fosdem2005.mgp]], 2005, at FOSDEM
+
+  * Ognyan Kulev, [[large_stores]]
+
+  * <http://kerneltrap.org/node/4429>
+
+Ognyan's patch lifts this limitation (and is being used in the
+[[Debian_GNU/Hurd_distribution|running/debian]]), but it introduces another
+incompatibility: `ext2fs` then only supports block sizes of 4096 bytes.
+Smaller block sizes are commonly automatically selected by `mke2fs` when using
+small backend stores, like floppy devices.
+
+
+# Documentation
+
+<http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/>