- won't boot if filesystem was created with mke2fs 1.30, as e2fsck in the tarball (1.2x) breaks the boot process. Do we have a newer mke2fs in the main archive that we can use? - can't make / readonly (or something like that) bug in the Hurd Why is this a bug? One needs to be able to create a node for the console to attach to in /tmp if one cannot create it in /dev; so you need / to be writable.