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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index fff2e74b..00000000 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 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 -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]]."]]"""]] - -# Implementation - - * [[filetype]] option - - -## 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]] - - -### 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 -small backend stores, like floppy devices. - - -# Documentation - - * <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html> - - * <http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/> |