> In Comment #4 you would see that your patch was included in dosfstools
> 2.11-2.3ubuntu1,
> the bug was marked "fix released" on 12 Mar 08 - 11:45 If that is not what
> you mean, then
> can you please elaborate?
I was referring to the much updated patch in comment 5.
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memory saving patch
Huh?
In Comment #4 you would see that your patch was included in dosfstools
2.11-2.3ubuntu1, the bug was marked "fix released" on 12 Mar 08 - 11:45
If that is not what you mean, then can you please elaborate?
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memory saving patch to dosfsck
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189184
You received
Any reason why the last patch from half a year ago wasn't applied?
It has three separate optimization:
- Allocation overhead reduction (in my full 8GB file system case, reduced total
memory usage from 120MB to 80MB)
- FAT entry size reduction by changing 32+32 bits to bitfield (thing that needs
We found a memory alignment problem from the patch. It was an issue in
ARM platform (tested in Nokia N800). Here's a bug-fixed version.
The bugfix consists of these lines:
+/* dosfsck doesn't use doubles, so it's safe to align just to 4 */
+size = (size+3) & ~3;
** Attachment added: "10-
Ignore the last comment, the bug is only in this newer version of the
patch... Here're some additional comments and measurements from Eero
about the new patch.
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Here are patches for reducing the huge dosfsck memory usage to something
slightly more reasonable. Except for the dosfsck.h bitfiel
This bug was fixed in the package dosfstools - 2.11-2.3ubuntu1
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dosfstools (2.11-2.3ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
* Patch from Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to improve memory
efficiency when checking filesystems. (LP: #189184)
-- Luke Yelavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 1
Setting to In Progress.
** Changed in: dosfstools (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => In Progress
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memory saving patch to dosfsck
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189184
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To get your fix included in Ubuntu, try transforming it into a debdiff
(http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff) and submitting
it for review (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess).
Marking 'incomplete' for now.
** Changed in: dosfstools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplet
** Attachment added: "patch by Eero Tamminen"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11769189/dosfstools-ram-saving.diff
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memory saving patch to dosfsck
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189184
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