From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: Future of ext2 support in the Hurd?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:39:03 +0200
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Theodore Ts'o, le Sun 12 Aug 2007 17:40:00 -0400, a =E9crit :
> no one touched the ext2 code in two years,

Yes, because the current implementation roughly does its job, so I gues=
s
nobody felt brave enough to touch it.  Support for >2GB filesystems was
developped and is used in Debian GNU/Hurd as a patch, though.

Regards,
Samuel