[Filesystems-devel] Bug#848551: f2fs-tools: please make an udeb

[Adam Borowski]

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.