Re: [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft

[Justus Winter]

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