exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

[Namjae Jeon]

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                   |

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

Re: exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

[Sedat Dilek]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:16 AM Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.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?),

congrats to version 1.0.4 and hope to see it in the Debian repositories soon.

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.
( Today, I love/prefer to use ZSTD where possible - that is another story. )

Have more fun.

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

Re: exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

[Sedat Dilek]

> congrats to version 1.0.4 and hope to see it in the Debian repositories soon.
>

Thanks Sven!

root# dpkg -l | grep exfatprogs | awk '/^ii/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3}'
| column -t
ii  exfatprogs  1.0.4-1

- Sedat -

Re: exfatprogs-1.0.4 version released

[Namjae Jeon]

2020-07-31 18:56 GMT+09:00, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:16 AM Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.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
>