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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-05-25 23:39:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-05-26 13:22:07 +0200 |
| commit | 802232498672d254b3b6a8b8d666e934010bc2f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 588801038ca03bef7e159d6cbe89c7067feb3f6d /hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | |
| parent | 952a2c1b321f34624a62a974ee3a6152185d4028 (diff) | |
I removed the 2 GiB file system limit on the ext2fs page.
* hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn: I inlined the faq entry that explains
the ext2fs filesystem limitations.
Message-ID: <20240526034104.3641-4-jbranso@dismail.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn index 81e54dff..957b9c13 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -22,16 +22,17 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] * [[internal_allocator]] +## Current Limitations -## Large Stores +### Use 64 bit time by default -The `ext2fs` translator from the upstream Hurd code base can only handle file -systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB. +Extend ext2fs to support 64bit time. -[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] +## Large Stores +[[!inline pagenames=faq/2_gib_partition_limit raw=yes feeds=no]] -### Ognyan's Work +### Ognyan's Work to allow ext2 to surpass the 2 GiB limit * Ognyan Kulev, [[*Supporting Large ext2 File Systems in the Hurd*|ogi-fosdem2005.mgp]], 2005, at FOSDEM @@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB. * <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 +Ognyan's patch lifted this limitation (and is being used in the +[[Debian_GNU/Hurd_distribution|running/debian]]), but it introduced 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. |