[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] replace genext2fs with populate-extfs.sh
Darren Hart
dvhart at linux.intel.com
Wed May 8 07:39:00 UTC 2013
Always discuss them upstream first. If they are accepted upstream, THEN,
we can roll them into oe-core if we don't want to bring in everything
that landed before them too. But always discuss changes to a project to
the project before doing so in oe-core.
Thanks,
Darren
On 05/07/2013 06:49 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> No, I haven't sent them to the ext mailing list, can we merge them in
> oe-core and then back port to the ext community ? Or I should send them
> to the ext mailing list first ?
>
> // Robert
>
> On 05/08/2013 06:48 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> Have these been reviewed on the ext mailing list already?
>>
>> --
>> Darren
>>
>> On 05/07/2013 02:48 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
>>> * The benefits:
>>> - Really support ext4
>>> - Support the sparse file (the sparse file became into the common file before)
>>> - Have a uniform code for ext2/3/4 generation
>>> - Remove the depends on genext2fs-native
>>>
>>> * Impact
>>> - Build time:
>>> a) If we build fresh core-image-sato, there is nearly no impact.
>>> b) If we do the image generation, which means:
>>> $ bitbake core-image-sato
>>> $ bitbake core-image-sato -ccleansstate
>>> $ bitbake core-image-sato
>>> About 50 extra seconds are needed, here is my test result:
>>> Before the patches: 4m25s
>>> After the patches: 5m17s
>>> This is because the genext2fs is much faster than the
>>> populate-extfs.sh, we will replace this script by the mke2fs when it
>>> supports create the filesystem from a initial directory.
>>>
>>> - Disk space (take core-image-sato as an example)
>>> a) The image file size is the same as before (529M)
>>> b) The disk usage is a little different: (du -sh)
>>> before now
>>> ext2: 364M 388M
>>> ext3: 381M 404M
>>> ext4: 380M 387M
>>>
>>> We may need to adjust the IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR from 1.3 to 1.4.
>>>
>>> I have done some simple runtime testing on core-image-sato and
>>> core-image-minimal, they worked well.
>>>
>>> // Robert
>>>
>>> The following changes since commit 3472c1f7ab409cd91c1d4782d9e00880b84e3ae8:
>>>
>>> grub-efi-native: Cleanup whitespace (2013-05-03 16:37:05 +0100)
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>> git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib robert/ext4
>>> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/ext4
>>>
>>> Robert Yang (4):
>>> e2fsprogs: the max length of debugfs argument is too short
>>> e2fsprogs: let debugfs do sparse copy
>>> e2fsprogs: add populate-extfs.sh
>>> image_types.bbclass: replace genext2fs with populate-extfs.sh
>>>
>>> meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 46 ++++----
>>> .../e2fsprogs-1.42.7/debugfs-too-short.patch | 28 +++++
>>> .../e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7/populate-extfs.sh | 93 ++++++++++++++++
>>> .../e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7/sparse_copy.patch | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>> .../recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.42.7.bb | 4 +
>>> 5 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7/debugfs-too-short.patch
>>> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7/populate-extfs.sh
>>> create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7/sparse_copy.patch
>>>
>>
--
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel
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