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HFS Patch 15 out
From: |
K . G . |
Subject: |
HFS Patch 15 out |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:07:51 +0200 |
Hi,
I've released HFS Patch 15 for Parted 1.6.15 :
http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.15-hfs-15.patch.gz
( patched tbz2 :
http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.15-hfs-15.tar.bz2
staticaly linked for ppc :
http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-hfs-ppc.static )
Use the '-T' option of patch to apply it, otherwise you will uselessly
rebuild the whole autoconf system of Parted.
I've rewritten the search algorithm using a cache storing extent references
of the FS in a sorted order, but this has not resulted in the spectacular
speed improvement I expected. I've found that most (indeed nearly all)
CPU time is spent in kernel space so I will try to understand why and find
new solutions to accelerate things.
This version also includes other important changes :
- in hfsplus_do_move_primary, hfs_effect_move_extent
was called instead of hfsplus_effect_move_extent !!!
This could not produce data corruption, because of a welcome
ASSERT in *_effect_move_extent that would detect the bug, and
make the resize process 'cleanly' fail, depending of the initial
filesystem. (bug not present in 12.5 and before)
- in hfs_effect_move_extent, do
PED_ASSERT(*ptr_to_fblock <= *ptr_fblock, return -1);
instead of
PED_ASSERT(*ptr_to_fblock < *ptr_fblock, return -1);
and added that assertion to hfsplus_effect_move_extent
- optimisation of hfs+ block access : don't recalculate
the address of each sector, and avoid checking the cache if
obviously not useful
( hfsplus_file_read && hfsplus_file_write
&& hfsplus_file_find_extent && hfs_file_find_sector)
- in hfsplus_open : added a warning message if the "attributes"
special file exists
- hfsplus_open : added a test to check if the "allocation"
special file has been correctly opened
- "hfs.c" was cut in several parts
After new tests I found that resized HFS(+) volumes are incompatible with
Linux 2.4 after checking and repairing them with disk utils of Mac Os.
Enjoy,
Guillaume Knispel
- HFS Patch 15 out,
K . G . <=