Quoting Manolis Ragkousis (2016-03-24 13:36:04) > > Hmmm, so one still needs a filesystem, right? That's going to be a > > bit tricky too, since whatever tool you use for that purpose, it > > surely does not support creating hurdish passive translator records. > > Without passive translator records things get indeed more interesting. > > I have a patch for some tool for creating ext2 filesystems that could > > help, or we create all the passive translator records on first boot > > similar to how Samuels Debian/Hurd live cds deal with that. Or I > > finish my bootshell work that can boot from filesystems without > > passive translator records. > > Where can I find more info on those?
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html#translator Passive translator records are stored in ext2 using the Hurd on-disk format: http://git.sceen.net/hurd/hurd.git/blob/HEAD:/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h#l252 Justus
