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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn index 69d035db..305576b8 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -9,14 +9,23 @@ 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 +# 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]] -A patch exists to lift this limitation (and is being used in the +## 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 |