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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-09-07 12:02:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-09-07 12:21:19 +0200 |
| commit | c6769c6d0bd7755114594c99372cb5973e23ccc7 (patch) | |
| tree | bb4d66d24886e85db6cf41ed31b2ee1e64bc2ade /hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | |
| parent | 03f0e8ac66f94021d388fd8bae937d4a50d90177 (diff) | |
| parent | 8f312ae34cacd5ca9c8bc1d1c02736641aac3ad5 (diff) | |
Merge in Ognyan's ext2fs / large stores documentation.
Imported as follows:
$ git svn init --trunk=https://svn.openfmi.net/ext3fs/trunk/ext2fs --ignore-paths=ext2fs_20041111.diff.gz
Initialized empty Git repository in /media/data/home/thomas/tmp/hurd/ogi/ext2fs-doc/.git/
Using higher level of URL: https://svn.openfmi.net/ext3fs/trunk/ext2fs => https://svn.openfmi.net/ext3fs
$ cat ../Authors
ogi = Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
$ git svn fetch --authors-file=../Authors
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA layer request failed: REPORT of '/ext3fs/!svn/bc/100': Could not read chunk size: Secure connection truncated (https://svn.openfmi.net)
W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history.
This may take a while on large repositories
Checked Ahrough ext2fs-fosdem2005.mgp
r197 = 825e41c4561a2d8ef008c30173ddacf37afc38c7 (refs/remotes/trunk)
M ext2fs-fosdem2005.mgp
r198 = 4af0a32067499c57ec114bb88c0c4db8f37c7d47 (refs/remotes/trunk)
M ext2fs-fosdem2005.mgp
A ext2fs_20040219.txt
r199 = 59efdc57ad94f515c5f0da72a9de860b7e3f291f (refs/remotes/trunk)
M ext2fs-fosdem2005.mgp
r200 = 8f312ae34cacd5ca9c8bc1d1c02736641aac3ad5 (refs/remotes/trunk)
Checked out HEAD:
https://svn.openfmi.net/ext3fs/trunk/ext2fs r200
Merge that using --no-commit, then:
$ mv ext2fs-fosdem2005.mgp hurd/translator/ext2fs/ogi-fosdem2005.mgp
$ mv ext2fs_20040219.txt hurd/translator/ext2fs/large_stores.txt
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn index 69d035db..305576b8 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -9,14 +9,23 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] -# Issues +# 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]] -A patch exists to lift this limitation (and is being used in the +## 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 |