Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-09-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
ontain holes. FYI, I've just made sure I use the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC is used in the project. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-09-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 12:24 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > >On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:44 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote:

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-09-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:44 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:31:22AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > > > &

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
ntain holes. I see, thanks a lot for suggestion. Just to make it clear, this is more like working around file-system bugs, which, as I guess, were present in early days of FIEMAP. I'll look into adding FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC to Fiemap.py in bmap-tools, thanks! -- Best Regards, Artem Bityut

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
nt stream-reading directly from the remote service, stream-decompressing on-the fly, and flashing in parallel. This rules out the "xz saves sparseness" design. For the third part, we keep the sparseness information in a separate file which makes it entirely optional. -- Best Regards, Ar

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
all any additional tools could still use the old method of throwing the entire image to the target block device. Another goal I had is to make the additional bmap file to be a human-readable text file. But yes, having all in one file does have its own advantages. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityut

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:34 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 8/13/13 8:58 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > # Make the image to be sparse > > $ cp --sparse=always Fedora-x86_64-19-20130627-sda.raw > Fedora-x86_64-19-20130627-sda.raw.sparse > > > > # Generate the bmap fil

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

2013-08-15 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 09:40 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > We can't tell people to re-install from scratch every 6 months. What > we need is an "apt-get dist-upgrade" equivalent. +1 -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-14 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 21:16 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 08/14/2013 02:21 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > I think I covered this part in the documentation. But here is a short > > description. > > > > 1. The bmap file should be created just after the image is generat

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-14 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
y, I will try to implement this faster (or accept someone's contribution :-)) Thanks for the feed-back! -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-14 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:44 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:31:22AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > > > &

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-14 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 16:35 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > 在 2013-8-13 PM9:52,"Artem Bityutskiy" 写道: > > > > Hi Fedora developers, > > > > I would like suggest you to take a look at bmaptool, which you can > use > > for flashing Fedora ISO

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-14 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:31:22AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > Other things like reading from remote sites, progress indicator, > > protecting your mounted disks, uncompressing on-the-fly, checking sha1 > > of

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 09:31 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > But this all is not the point, these are additional goodies. The main > point of bmaptool is in having the bmap file, and _then_ you get real > speed-up, based on the sparseness of the original image. Just as a rough demonstrat

Re: Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 17:48 +0200, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:58:16PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > Hi Fedora developers, > > > $ dd if=Fedora-x86_64-19-20130627-sda.raw of=/dev/sdd > > 4194304+0 records in > > 4194304+0 records ou

Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

2013-08-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
.org/documentation/articles/bmaptool And yes, I suggest that Fedora could also generate and publish bmap files, if this is found to be useful. In Tizen IVI people are very happy to use bmaptool versus pain dd. Anyway, please, check the docs, give feed-back, ask questions. Thanks, and sorry for a me