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

    I posted the same thing the last time a HURD story came up. Turns out they have trouble maintaining websites and the links to the mailing lists are outdated, there are new mailing lists lurking somewhere. At the moment, there isn't much visible progress as they are busy porting from one microkernel to another.

  2. Re:how can one most easily check out the HURD? by Otter · · Score: 2, Informative

    Debian has a HURD distribution. The installation doesn't sound too bad if you have an existing Linux (or whatever) system and an adequate free partition, and are already using grub. I haven't been insane enough to try it, though.

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  3. Actually, we went down a slightly different road by mbanck · · Score: 3, Informative
    Contrary to what I wrote in that post to debian-hurd which got cited for this article, we decided to not do all this patching to have two static ext2fs translators (one supporting big stores larger than 2GB, the default one not) next to each other.

    Instead, after some more testing, we decided to fully apply Ognyan Kulev's patch so that every translated ext2 file system will use it. I committed the code to the Debian Hurd package svn repository yesterday and we will probably upload it by the end of this week.

    Michael

  4. Oh, and my last name is 'Banck' not 'Bank' by mbanck · · Score: 2, Informative
    Michael Bank writes:

    I am called Michael Banck, actually.

    but what else do you expect? =)

    Michael