[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] genext2fs: support large files and filesystems without using large amounts of memor

[Cui, Dexuan]

Dexuan Cui wrote on 2012-03-29:
> Hi RP, Saul, Paul, Darren, Mark, Josh and joaohf and all, please comment.
> 
> Let's figure out if this big patch is accepatable or not...
> 
> With this patch, I can successfully create a 8.5GB .ext3 file with genext2fs.
> The speed is slow -- I spent about 1.5 hours.
Based on the latest poky master, I built from scratch with DL_DIR pointing
to an empty directory. After the building finished, I got more data:

the size of DL_DIR is about 3.1 GB.
genext2fs took about 65 minutes to create a 5.4GB .ext3 file.
The final .vmdk file's size is about 3.5GB.

> 
> The following changes since commit
> 265903bdffb10c95ceaf7a892151a50b67939c71:
> 
>   procps: don't print error message with kernel 3.0+ (2012-03-28
> 10:16:30
> +0100)
> 

Thanks,
-- Dexuan