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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..305576b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +[[!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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +# 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://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/> |