Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 2:48 PM Richard Braun <rbr...@sceen.net> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:37:54PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> > > 1. The installer uses ext2. >> > … >> > > Regarding (1), ext2 seems a bit unusual in 2019, but it may be a >> > > design decision. It may be worth noting ext4 is a journaled file >> > > system and ext2 is not. >> > >> > The reason for ext2 is that this is not just an ordinary ext2, but one >> > which supports setting passive Hurd translators on nodes (started on >> > access to the filesystem node). >> >> The real reason is history. Noone did work to get ext4 in, but ext2 >> on the other hand was there from the start. How can people imagine >> this is a design decision at all ? > > Well, I can't speak for others, but for me, ext2 is there. Ext4 has > been available for over 10 years. There has to be a good reason for > selecting ext2 over ext4 a decade after the fact.
The good reason is that 10 years ago, the Hurd did already have a working filesystem for 15 years. And the handful of part-time devs did not port to ext4, because other issues were more important to them. > Also, the Hurd docs don't state no one has done the work. Confer, > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/ext2fs.html . I > would not advertise that either :) > > Finally, there are no open issues for the ext4 migration. Confer, > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/tag/open_issue_hurd.html . Would you like to add it? → https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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