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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-09-07 12:02:44 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-09-07 12:21:19 +0200
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treebb4d66d24886e85db6cf41ed31b2ee1e64bc2ade /hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn
parent03f0e8ac66f94021d388fd8bae937d4a50d90177 (diff)
parent8f312ae34cacd5ca9c8bc1d1c02736641aac3ad5 (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
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@@ -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