%include "default.mgp" %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Supporting Larger File Systems A bit of history Internals %page Need for Supporting Larger File Systems Hurd 0.2 was released in 1997 and it was very buggy Many bugs are fixed since then and the system becomes more and more stable The 2G limit for ext2 file systems becomes more and more annoying %page Timeline 2002: Time for graduating, fixing the 2G limit in Hurd's ext2fs and implementing ext3fs were chosen for MSc thesis 2003: First alfa quality patch 2004: Graduation, ext2fs patch in Debian, but ext3fs is unstable %page Original ext2fs BLA-BLA %page Other Proposals BLA-BLA %page What I did Ignore everybody :-)