From 802232498672d254b3b6a8b8d666e934010bc2f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "jbranso@dismail.de" Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 23:39:58 -0400 Subject: I removed the 2 GiB file system limit on the ext2fs page. * hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn: I inlined the faq entry that explains the ext2fs filesystem limitations. Message-ID: <20240526034104.3641-4-jbranso@dismail.de> --- hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn') diff --git a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn index 81e54dff..957b9c13 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/ext2fs.mdwn @@ -22,16 +22,17 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] * [[internal_allocator]] +## Current Limitations -## Large Stores +### Use 64 bit time by default -The `ext2fs` translator from the upstream Hurd code base can only handle file -systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB. +Extend ext2fs to support 64bit time. -[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] +## Large Stores +[[!inline pagenames=faq/2_gib_partition_limit raw=yes feeds=no]] -### Ognyan's Work +### Ognyan's Work to allow ext2 to surpass the 2 GiB limit * Ognyan Kulev, [[*Supporting Large ext2 File Systems in the Hurd*|ogi-fosdem2005.mgp]], 2005, at FOSDEM @@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB. * -Ognyan's patch lifts this limitation (and is being used in the -[[Debian_GNU/Hurd_distribution|running/debian]]), but it introduces another +Ognyan's patch lifted this limitation (and is being used in the +[[Debian_GNU/Hurd_distribution|running/debian]]), but it introduced 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. -- cgit v1.2.3