The Hurd Gets Support For Large Filesystems 58
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."
Re:Hurd development (Score:2, Informative)
Re:how can one most easily check out the HURD? (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, we went down a slightly different road (Score:4, Informative)
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
Oh, and my last name is 'Banck' not 'Bank' (Score:3, Informative)
I am called Michael Banck, actually.
but what else do you expect? =)
Michael