It was just occurring to me that we could in fact set the filetype field on
disk in the Hurd ext2fs to the same values that Linux would use. The Hurd
semantics essentially require that ext2fs never report a value other than
DT_UNKNOWN to the user. However, that doesn't mean we can't store other
Hi,
First: I apologize for being dumb. I completely misunderstood how this is
supposed to work. Now that I understood, I don't disagree with the problem
message anymore.
However, I think my result is partly the result of mke2fs -o hurd setting
the filetype feature on linux. Ted, can you make the
Hi,
e2fsck 1.19 will produce the following problem message on the Hurd with a
filesystem that has filetypes:
The Hurd does not support the filetype feature.
Clear ?
This will lead to problems with fsck --preen --writable, which is used
at boot time: fsck will barf out with an UNEXPECTED INCONS
Package: hurd
Version: 2000803
Hi,
"ln 2 pfinet", which used to work, gives ENOTSUP.
Same for "ls -l 2".
I am going back to symbolic links in the install script for now...
Thanks,
Marcus
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:43:37AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> That's an excellent suggestion. But I do find the hurd Makefiles rather
> more complicated then neccesary. The topdirectory's Makeconf is just a mess to
> make sense of. I'm not really sure this approach is better then just having
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 02:13:16PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> > Otherwise
> > you are free to flame the people who wrote the makefiles. :-)
>
> I would think twice. I have not these problems, and I just compiled the Hurd
> tw
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> Otherwise
> you are free to flame the people who wrote the makefiles. :-)
I would think twice. I have not these problems, and I just compiled the Hurd
two days ago.
H eshould make sure he builds in a different directory than the s
