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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | 16 |
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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c644d0ca --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[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. |