* 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 -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core