linux-kernel - Re: exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

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Date:   Sun, 2 Aug 2020 08:36:33 +0900
From:   Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
To:     sedat.dilek@...il.com
Cc:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>,
        Nicolas Boos <nicolas.boos@...adoo.fr>,
        Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>,
        Luca Stefani <luca.stefani.ge1@...il.com>,
        Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>,
        Sven Hoexter <sven@...rmbind.net>,
        Ethan Sommer <e5ten.arch@...il.com>,
        Hyeongseok Kim <hyeongseok@...il.com>
Subject: Re: exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

2020-07-31 18:56 GMT+09:00, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:16 AM Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folk,
>>
>> In this release, The performance of fsck have been much improved and
>> the new option in mkfs have been added to adjust boundary alignment.
>>
>> As the result below, The fsck performance is improved close to windows's
>> fsck
>> and much faster than the one in exfat-utils package.
>>
>> We measured the performance on Samsung 64GB Pro microSDXC UHS-I Class 10
>> which
>> was filled up to 35GB with 9948 directories and 16506 files.
>>
>> | Implementation       | version           | execution time (seconds) |
>> |--------------------- |-------------------|--------------------------|
>> | **exfatprogs fsck**  | 1.0.4             | 11.561                   |
>> | Windows fsck         | Windows 10 1809   | 11.449                   |
>> | [exfat-fuse fsck]    | 1.3.0             | 68.977                   |
>>
>
> Hi Namjae Jeon (what is your First name and Family name?),
Hi Sedat,
First name : Namjae, Last name : Jeon
>
> congrats to version 1.0.4 and hope to see it in the Debian repositories
> soon.
Thanks:)
>
> Great numbers for exfatprogs/fsck!
>
>> And we have been preparing to add fsck repair feature in the next
>> version.
>> Any feedback is welcome!:)
>>
>> CHANGES :
>>  * fsck.exfat: display sector, cluster, and volume sizes in the human
>>    readable format.
>>  * fsck.exfat: reduce the elapsed time using read-ahead.
>>
>> NEW FEATURES :
>>  * mkfs.exfat: generate pseudo unique serials while creating filesystems.
>>  * mkfs.exfat: add the "-b" option to align the start offset of FAT and
>>    data clusters.
>>  * fsck.exfat: repair zero-byte files which have the NoFatChain
>> attribute.
>>
>> BUG FIXES :
>>  * Fix memory leaks on error handling paths.
>>  * fsck.exfat: fix the bug that cannot access space beyond 2TB.
>>
>> The git tree is at:
>>       https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs
>>
>> The tarballs can be found at:
>>
>> https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/download/1.0.4/exfatprogs-1.0.4.tar.gz
>>
>
> Just a small nit for the next announcement.
> Please point (also) to the tar.xz tarball and maybe to the releases
> tag in GitHub.
Sure. I will do that on next release.
> ( Today, I love/prefer to use ZSTD where possible - that is another story.
> )
I'm not sure if it is meaningful to provide various compression for
small archive file. In particular, I wonder if other distribution
maintainers want it.
>
> Have more fun.
Nice day!
>
> Regards,
> - Sedat -
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/download/1.0.4/exfatprogs-1.0.4.tar.xz
> [2] https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.0.4
>