[Filesystems-devel] Bug#943948: ITP: erofs-utils -- Utilities for EROFS File System

[Gao Xiang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gao Xiang <xiang at kernel.org>

* Package name    : erofs-utils
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Li Guifu <blucerlee at gmail.com>, Miao Xie <miaoxie at huawei.com>, Gao Xiang <xiang at kernel.org>
* URL             : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Utilities for EROFS File System

EROFS [1] [2] is a new enhanced lightweight linux upstreamed in-kernel
read-only filesystem with modern designs (eg. no buffer head, reduced
metadata, inline xattrs/data, etc.) for scenarios which need high-performance
read-only requirements, e.g. Android OS for smartphones and LIVECDs.

It also provides fixed-sized output compression support, which improves
storage density, keeps relatively higher compression ratios, which is more
useful to achieve high performance for embedded devices with limited memory
since it has unnoticable memory overhead and page cache thrashing.

erofs-utils 1.0 [3] was released weeks ago, I'm trying to request for
debian inclusion (also consider security issues [4] for lz4 package).

I made a usable debian package just now although I have limited knowledge
about the whole debian packaging stuff. I'd like and will take time to be
the package maintainer if no one have interest or enough time on this.

Please kindly consider my request.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

[1] https://kccncosschn19eng.sched.com/event/Nru2/erofs-an-introduction-and-our-smartphone-practice-xiang-gao-huawei
[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/gao
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024033259.GA2513@hsiangkao-HP-ZHAN-66-Pro-G1
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943751
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943680