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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 00:51 +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> 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.

If these patches solved all the problems and made things work
wonderfully I'd probably say we'd take them. Unfortunately I don't
consider taking 1.5 hours to build am 8GB filesystem "wonderful", its
rather worrying and I don't think its performing any where need fast
enough for our needs :(.

Patching genext2fs at this point in the cycle is a rather risky
undertaking too and I'm getting very concerned about this. 

We might have to look at alternative ways to solve this problem. I think
Darren said he might help look at this and has some other ideas. Darren?

Cheers,

Richard