Op 30 mrt. 2012, om 14:49 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:43 -0700, Koen Kooi wrote: >> Op 29 mrt. 2012, om 15:07 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: >> >>> 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. >> >> The biggest issue I have with genext2fs is that it currently allocates >> RAM for the complete image, which in my case will cause it to swap and >> for other users cause it to crash, since image > (ram + swap). Fixing >> the memory issue before the release would be greatly appreciated. >> >> What about putting it on the shortlist for backports after the >> release? That should give us all more time to test it and eventually >> get into the hands of stable branch users. Of course I'd still prefer >> it to go in before the release and backport fixes :) > > I should point out one of the patches in this mega patch set is one for > the memory issue.
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