On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:43 -0700, Koen Kooi wrote: > Op 29 mrt. 2012, om 15:07 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: > > > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 00:51 +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: > >> Hi RP, Saul, Paul, Darren, Mark, Josh and joaohf and all, please comment. > >> > >> Let's figure out if this big patch is accepatable or not... > >> > >> With this patch, I can successfully create a 8.5GB .ext3 file with > >> genext2fs. > >> The speed is slow -- I spent about 1.5 hours. > > > > If these patches solved all the problems and made things work > > wonderfully I'd probably say we'd take them. Unfortunately I don't > > consider taking 1.5 hours to build am 8GB filesystem "wonderful", its > > rather worrying and I don't think its performing any where need fast > > enough for our needs :(. > > > > Patching genext2fs at this point in the cycle is a rather risky > > undertaking too and I'm getting very concerned about this. > > The biggest issue I have with genext2fs is that it currently allocates > RAM for the complete image, which in my case will cause it to swap and > for other users cause it to crash, since image > (ram + swap). Fixing > the memory issue before the release would be greatly appreciated. > > What about putting it on the shortlist for backports after the > release? That should give us all more time to test it and eventually > get into the hands of stable branch users. Of course I'd still prefer > it to go in before the release and backport fixes :)
I should point out one of the patches in this mega patch set is one for the memory issue. I'd appreciate some others giving this patch set a go, see if they can find any regressions for their usual use cases. Based on the feedback I've had so far I'm leaning towards merging it but I'm not making a final decision yet, I'd like some test reports... Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
