Package: f2fs-tools Version: 1.7.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i
Hi! On machines with flash storage (SD, eMMC) traditional filesystems behave abysmally bad: * "git reset --hard" of a big empty tree: btrfs 3m45s, f2fs 4m, ext4 12m, xfs 16-18m (big variance) * ./configure && make -j4 && make test" of a shit package with only ~2MB of persistent writes: f2fs 95s, btrfs 97s, xfs 120s, ext4 122s (where does this difference even come from, on a CPU-bound task with virtually no writeout?) So the real good options are btrfs and f2fs. And btrfs is... quirky to say the least, having goodies like snapshots, data checksums or compression (great for speed if CPU is much faster than I/O) but also having serious reasons people may want to avoid it for. Adding d-i support, besides adding a menu item that's simple for a single-device filesystem, requires having an udeb with at least mkfs, other tools also being nice to have in case the user needs to troubleshoot during the installation. Thus, would you care creating such an udeb? Apologies for waking up that late, it'd need to pass NEW no later than Xmas.
