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The Hurd Gets Support For Large Filesystems

Posted by timothy on from the lumbering-onward-discontentedly dept.

latroM writes "Finally, after many years of waiting, the Hurd has got support for partitions larger than 2GB. The patch is told to be very stable and its development was started about a year and a half ago. Michael Bank writes: 'I hacked the Debian package so far that I make it build a statically compiled ext2fs with Ogi's patch (20041029) for partitions > 2GB. For now, I decided to just copy libpager, libdiskfs and ext2fs to libpager-ogi, libdiskfs-ogi and ext2fs-ogi, apply his patch and dump the result as a new patch. Another patch modifies the Makefiles accordingly.' I did some basic tests with those packages and they work fine for me so far. Any comments on how they work for people and how to possibly improve the packaging and integration of the patch are very welcome."

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  1. Take that, Microsoft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The mighty HURD has >2 GB filesystem support, and Longhorn still isn't out! Who's laughing now? I ask: Who is laughing now?

  2. "Finally, after many years of waiting" by pb · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've been waiting for The HURD? Oh, whoops, I've been using Linux. It's quite nice, I hear RMS uses it to host webpages and stuff. Perhaps you should try it!

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  3. Good Job! Now, what's next... by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Large filesystem support...check

    Let's see what we still need...

    Out of memory
    Segmentation fault

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  4. Future by zemoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't believe no one's said this yet:

    Large filesystems are great ... but will it run Duke Nukem Forever?

  5. Re:Hurd development by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turns out they have trouble maintaining websites...

    And they're trying to code a kernel?

  6. Next Up... by DesScorp · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they're replacing punch cards with a monitor and keyboard. Oooohhhh! An I hear they've got....shhhh...Floppy Drive support on the way!

    They've GOT to fix that 640K thing though...like, gag me with a spoon...

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