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Fixes two locations where unaligned accesses will cause bus errors on architectures that are strict about such accesses, namely sparc. The first is in swab32_into, which is called with an...

matoro

genext2fs is painfully slow for multi-GB input

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Hi, I'm now using genext2fs with multi-GB tarballs as input. While this works well it also takes several hours on my machine. So I profiled genext2fs: [gprof.txt](https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs/files/8019244/gprof.txt) If I read...

josch

Enable system locale - change from the standard (C) to system locale.

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This allows libarchive (in case it is activated) to handle filenames. We only change LC_CTYPE since libarchive only needs the charset set. We don't use LC_ALL because it causes problems...

josch

According to the ext2 specification, superblocks and group descriptors are supposed to be copied per block group (or only in certain block groups if the sparse superblock feature is enabled)....

borrrden

Notice that the release genext2fs-1.5.0.tar.gz still defines 1.4.2 for AC_INIT in configure.ac. Should the version be 1.5.0?

yuzubc18

Don't call ftruncate() on stdout

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While `-` seems to be explicitly supported as the output option (because `if(strcmp(fsout, "-") == 0)` is checked), this doesn't work since `ftruncate` is called on it anyway in `copy_file`....

mart-jansink

Recover automatic block number calculation

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Total block count was removed on commit 457078c without explanation. Bring it back with a change: instead of increasing the number of blocks specified by the user (like it used...

xOneca

The -d, -D and -a options do not allow paths containing a colon

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Currently, the argument to `-d`, `-D` and `-a` is split by the first colon. This means that the path to the directory, specfile or tarball must not have a colon...

josch

Hi, it would be great if genext2fs would also store the extended attributes of files and directories passed to it. Thanks! cheers, josch

josch

Fix formatting of man page references

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jwilk