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Re: Getting HURD up and running



Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org> writes:

> This is true, however if you are choosing features then omit filetype
> from your -O list.  The Hurd and Linux are mutually robust in use of the
> filetype feature, but the Hurd will write only 0 (i.e. "unknown") filetype
> fields and e2fsck will blather about fixing them all (both Hurd and Linux
> behave just fine with either 0 or nonzero values for the field).

If filetypes speed up Linux then I don't see why I should leave
them out, even if they slow down fsck.  Or do they need extra
space on the disk?



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