Re: Ext2fs 2GB limit status?

[Marco Gerards]

Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> writes:

> Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
> > Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> writes:
> >>Marco Gerards wrote:
> >>Given that I work on ext3fs in order to graduate in November, it's not
> >>that bad :-)
> > That is really nice!  Is it possible to keep your work public and can
> > I still give suggestions or report bugs?
> 
> When I have usable code, I won't miss to publish it immediately :-)
> For now, there is much uncertainty in design of ext3fs for the Hurd,
> and so there is no usable code.

Ok. Perhaps it is interesting to discuss journaling.  AFAIK Linux has
some journaling code shared by all filesystems.  Perhaps it is useful
to extend libdiskfs with such feature.  Perhaps you can share some
code for removing the 2GB limit too?  I think it is a waste of time to
fix the limit for every individual filesystem.

I'm even thinking about how easy it is, if this is really general, to
add journaling and ordered writes to filesystems that don't even
officially support this by just having a nice journaling
layer. (This is just a random thought that is possibly quite useless).

Thanks,
Marco