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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ The [[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]] also has a tutorial.
* [[pfinet]]
* [[storeio]]
+* [[ext2fs]]
* [[fatfs]]
* ...
diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta license="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.txt]]."]]
+
+The `ext2fs` translator from the upstream Hurd code base can only handle file
+systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB.
+
+A patch exists to lift 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.