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From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:49:23 +0100
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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