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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn index 441fb00f..69d035db 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!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 @@ -8,11 +9,20 @@ 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 + 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 [[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/> |