Re: translators, ext2 and files

[Niels Möller]

Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It's probably even too magic for the translator itself.  This does not
> work:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=dummy bs=1024k count=8
> mke2fs dummy
> settrans -c dummy /hurd/ext2fs `pwd`/dummy
> 
> ...because the translator will end up looping on itself.

You should probably say

  settrans -c dummy /hurd/ext2fs

i.e. omit the "underlying store" argument to ext2fs, to have it use the
file under the translator. (I don't have a hurd system, so I can't
tell if that actually works. If it doesn't, that's likely a bug).

/Niels