Hi Emfox and folks, I've uploaded erofs-utils package to mentors.debian.net https://mentors.debian.net/package/erofs-utils
with a RFS request #944153 , please kindly take some time helping on this package (and new filesystem) it will of great help. Thanks in advance! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944153 Best regards, Gao Xiang On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:25:02AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > Hi Emfox, > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:13:33AM +0800, Emfox Zhou wrote: > > Hello, have you put your packaging work online anywhere, so that people > > interested can help checking it? > > Thanks for your kind reply. > > I just worked out a manual page for mkfs.erofs since I noticed it's a > requirement for a debian package. I think I can upload the whole package to > a github repo or mentors.debian.net website then in a few day. > > Could you help take time checking it as well? :-) > > > And if the issues is critical, I am afraid we should not upload erofs-utils > > until lz4 is fixed. > > I think it's not critical (it only crashes with some given binary > sequences), so I can limit srcsize as a workaround if LZ4 compressor > isn't fixed. > > By the way, LZ4HC compressor is not affected at all and it's also > recommended to use LZ4HC rather than LZ4. > > However, I'd like to know if some priority to resolve debian LZ4 > compressor though. It seems much better than do some workaround on > my side. > > Thanks, > Gao Xiang > > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:33 PM Gao Xiang <xi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Gao Xiang <xi...@kernel.org> > > > > > > * Package name : erofs-utils > > > Version : 1.0 > > > Upstream Author : Li Guifu <blucer...@gmail.com>, Miao Xie < > > > miao...@huawei.com>, Gao Xiang <xi...@kernel.org> > > > * URL : > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git > > > * License : GPL-2+ > > > Programming Lang: C > > > Description : Utilities for EROFS File System > > > > > > EROFS [1] [2] is a new enhanced lightweight linux upstreamed in-kernel > > > read-only filesystem with modern designs (eg. no buffer head, reduced > > > metadata, inline xattrs/data, etc.) for scenarios which need > > > high-performance > > > read-only requirements, e.g. Android OS for smartphones and LIVECDs. > > > > > > It also provides fixed-sized output compression support, which improves > > > storage density, keeps relatively higher compression ratios, which is more > > > useful to achieve high performance for embedded devices with limited > > > memory > > > since it has unnoticable memory overhead and page cache thrashing. > > > > > > erofs-utils 1.0 [3] was released weeks ago, I'm trying to request for > > > debian inclusion (also consider security issues [4] for lz4 package). > > > > > > I made a usable debian package just now although I have limited knowledge > > > about the whole debian packaging stuff. I'd like and will take time to be > > > the package maintainer if no one have interest or enough time on this. > > > > > > Please kindly consider my request. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Gao Xiang > > > > > > [1] > > > https://kccncosschn19eng.sched.com/event/Nru2/erofs-an-introduction-and-our-smartphone-practice-xiang-gao-huawei > > > [2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/gao > > > [3] > > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024033259.GA2513@hsiangkao-HP-ZHAN-66-Pro-G1 > > > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943751 > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943680 > > > > > > > > > -- > > Emfox Zhou > > > > GnuPG Public Key: 0x10000DEB >