Implementation
- filetype option
Large Stores
The ext2fs translator from the upstream Hurd code base can only handle file
systems with sizes of less than roughly 2 GiB.
Ognyan's Work
Ognyan Kulev, Supporting Large ext2 File Systems in the Hurd, 2005, at FOSDEM
Ognyan Kulev, large stores
Ognyan's patch lifts this limitation (and is being used in the
Debian GNU/Hurd distribution), but it introduces 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.