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Re: woody Debian Installer plans



> > > I am not sure if this works well with the Hurd. Doesn't it have some 
> > > extensions to the Linux filesystem model? I don't think a Linux install
> > > can support it in that case.
> > >
> > mke2fs can format for the HURD, in fact you install the HURD from
> > linux right now. Or do get something wrong here?
> 
> I was thinking of new feature in the filesystem. I think the Hurd can have
> extra info attached to inodes (for example ACLs, version info etc.).
> I don't think that would be reachable from Linux.

The main problem is setting up translators under the hurd.  At the moment,
this cannot be done.

Best regards,
-Neal

-- 
Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu



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