On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 08:24:02AM +0000, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >> Awesome work! I've had a quick skim through, and itlooks OK but I'm >> not an f2fs user and don't have any eMMC/SD hardware available at the >> moment so I can't readily test it here either. > >Thanks for the answer! F2FS also works nice with normal SSDs, the >advantage compared to ext4 is just very small afaik.
Hmmm, OK. I mis-read, assuming it was flash-specific. I can't promise to do much testing for you just yet, though - really busy on other stuff atm. >> To test, you'll want to build d-i and add your new module. See >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build >> >> for instructions there. The easiest option is then to build a >> monolithic installer initramfs. Boot that and run through the >> installer. Make sure your new module is included and check it works as >> you'd expect > >Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at it. I will try to build it >and test it with my old machine when I have time to set it up, >probably sadly not earlier than February. OK, cool. >That being said I have two questions: > > * The first alpha of the Bullseye installer just got released, is > there any ETA for the second one / beta? Would love to see F2FS in > there, an ETA would be nice so I could set myself a time frame. We *try* to do the alpha builds every few months, but it's a (very!) flexible schedule at this stage of the release process. It depends on kibi and me having time to do things - he's the d-i release manager, and I run the CD/DVD builds. The hard deadline will be near the end of 2020, when we freeze Bullseye for the full release. We'll then switch to doing release candidates for d-i, and at that point we will only want to be taking bugfixes. > * As the d-i is new to me, I don't really get what exactly to put in > the mountoptions/f2fs file. I read the kernel documentation for > F2FS and found all the mount options, however I compared it with > btrfs & xfs and it looks like it's not simply a copy of all mount > options provided by the kernel. I couldn't find any documentation > how the d-i handles this file, so could you (or someone else) help > me out here? To be honest, I'm genuinely not sure. I've never had to play with that piece myself. Checking the code/changelog in partman-basicfilesystems, I *think* it's a list of the mount options that are allowed for a specific filesystem, so that d-i can validate what options the user has chosen for a filesystem. But I'm not 100% sure, sorry! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane
