smburdick / ext4-large-extents

ext4 Large Extents in the Linux Kernel

• Project Description
• Tasks

Setup

Run worker script

sh worker.sh build      # Create docker image
sh worker.sh save       # Save a copy of the container
sh worker.sh restart    # Restart docker container
sh worker.sh cp         # Copy your updated files into the container
sh worker.sh stop       # Stop container

Mount EXT4 device inside the container

sh mountfs.sh

Verify EXT4 image is mounted:

ls -lah /ext4fs

Create EXT4 partition

sudo parted /ext4fs

Kernel config

I'm trying to keep this at a minimum for obvious reasons -- namely, compilation time. I have stripped the .config file down to only Apple M1 support and disabled all else that I thought I could, drivers in particular.