Opened 10 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#597 closed enhancement (fixed)

Native mkfs for ext4 filesystem

Reported by: Jiri Svoboda Owned by: Jiri Svoboda
Priority: major Milestone: 0.8.0
Component: helenos/unspecified Version: mainline
Keywords: Cc:
Blocker for: Depends on:
See also: #733

Description

Create a native utility for creating ext4 filesystems. Presumably the core of the functionality would be in libext4. Without this HelenOS installer cannot create ext4-typed initial ram disk nor root filesystem.

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Jakub Jermář, 6 years ago

Milestone: 0.7.1

comment:2 by Jiri Svoboda, 6 years ago

This should be integrated with libfdisk.

comment:3 by Jiri Svoboda, 6 years ago

See also: #733

comment:4 by Jiri Svoboda, 6 years ago

Currently sysinst creates a MINIX file system. The problem with this is the MINIX file system does not contain any instance identifier (e.g. GUID or serial number) nor a volume label, making it difficult for Volume server to identify it. FAT is slow, hence ext4 is the only viable choice.

comment:5 by Jiri Svoboda, 6 years ago

Owner: set to Jiri Svoboda
Status: newaccepted

Work in progress.

comment:6 by Jakub Jermář, 5 years ago

Can this be closed now?

comment:7 by Jakub Jermář, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: acceptedclosed

comment:8 by Jakub Jermář, 5 years ago

Milestone: 0.8.0
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