When will F2FS come back?

Feature Requests
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Since F2FS was in RASPBMC already once, I like to know when it will come (back) to OSMC?

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Hi duri,

It was deprecated for a while in Raspbmc.

  • no fsck at the time (I am aware there is now an fsck, but we would likely need to implement initramfs which would complicate things greatly).
  • honeymoon period: does seem faster initially but slows down after a while. I have never seen benchmarks myself that show performance after the filesystem has been broken in.

S

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Progress has been made with f2fs in general.
Personally, I have moved the OSMC install to f2fs, it’s not that hard.
Performance is the same or better. It’s easier on the SD-card that’s for sure - as I use my Pi as a webserver as well with big databases / logging enabled, this is a plus.

The only problem is I keep getting e2fsck error on boot (OSMC doesn’t check if the mmcblkp02 device is actually an ext filesystem.
Can I disable the check? It’s useless on F2FS.
Can’t find a script anywhere; it’s compiled into the boot image, right?

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Just add nofsck to the end of the line of options in /boot/cmdline.txt that will stop the fsck check.

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To get OSMC to boot f2fs, you will need to make initramfs changes.
If you have made some changes and want to get them included in OSMC proper, please submit a pull request.

See package/kernel-osmc/initramfs for the scripts.

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@sam_nazarko funny you should say that, I’ve just posted this thread which covers two pre-requisites required in initramfs for booting OSMC from other filesystems.

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That’s cool, but actually i’m still booting from the first fat32 partition; just install f2fs-tools beforehand, converted the filesystem of the 2nd ext4 to f2fs from my linux machine, that’s it. (and set in cmdline.txt rootfstype=f2fs )

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F2FS supports fsck now. I would want to see support for this in initramfs if we were to officially support it.

f2fs-tools won’t make a difference as the initramfs is RO and the tools won’t be available to it, just the root filesystem post mount

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Ok, thanks. Well, then it already works out of the box completely.
Btrfs I couldn’t get to work at all, but supposedly because e2fsck fubarred my btrfs partition, is that possible?
[edit]
I haven’t modified initramfs

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I’ve git BTRFS working, but only by creating a custom initramfs

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