Bug 204910
| Summary: | RFE: Please update squashfs-tools to 3.1-r2 release | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Marcin Garski <mgarski> |
| Component: | squashfs-tools | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63835&package_id=60859&release_id=443608 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-04-09 21:26:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 150226 | ||
Given where we are in the devel cycle, I'm not really comfortable with shoving this in (freeze for test3 was today, and that's the last chance for significant testing really) I'll do this first thing after FC6 final freezes I understand it's not a good time to update package. No problem for me. Thank's for replaying. |
Hello Jeremy, new version of squashfs-tools has been released. Changes since 3.0: 1. Mksquashfs has been rewritten to be multi-threaded. It has the following improvements 1.1. Parallel compression. By default as many compression and fragment compression threads are created as there are available processors. This significantly speeds up performance on SMP systems. 1.2. File input and filesystem output is peformed in parallel on separate threads to maximise I/O performance. Even on single processor systems this speeds up performance by at least 10%. 1.3. Appending has been significantly improved, and files within the filesystem being appended to are no longer scanned and checksummed. This significantly improves append time for large filesystems. 1.4. File duplicate checking has been optimised, and split into two separate phases. Only files which are considered possible duplicates after the first phase are checksummed and cached in memory. 1.5 The use of swap memory was found to significantly impact performance. The amount of memory used to cache files is now a command line option, by default this is 512 Mbytes. 2. Unsquashfs has the following improvements 2.1 Unsquashfs now allows you to specify the filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be extracted, rather than always extracting the entire filesystem. 2.2 A new -force option has been added which forces Unsquashfs to output to the destination directory even if files and directories already exist in the destination directory. This allows you to update an already existing directory tree, or to Unsquashfs to a partially filled directory tree. Without the -force option Unsquashfs will refuse to output. 3. The following major bug fixes have been made 3.1 A fragment table rounding bug has been fixed in Mksquashfs. Previously if the number of fragments in the filesystem were a multiple of 512, Mksquashfs would generate an incorrect filesystem. 3.2 A rare SMP bug which occurred when simultaneously acccessing multiply mounted Squashfs filesystems has been fixed. 4. Miscellaneous improvements/bug fixes 4.1 Kernel code stack usage has been reduced. This is to ensure Squashfs works with 4K stacks. 4.2 Readdir (Squashfs kernel code) has been fixed to always return 0, rather than the number of directories read. Squashfs should now interact better with NFS. 4.3 Lseek bug in Mksquashfs when appending to larger than 4GB filesystems fixed. 4.4 Squashfs 2.x initrds can now been mounted. 4.5 Unsquashfs exit status fixed. 4.6 New patches for linux-2.6.18 and linux-2.4.33. In -r2: Mksquashfs -sort bug fix. A code optimisation after testing unfortunately broke sorting in Mksquashfs. This has been fixed.