Hi Adam, On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > 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.
I have no time to work on this before the NEW freeze, but feel free to NMU to have src:f2fs-tools build a udeb package, and whatever else is required for d-i support. Regards, Vincent
