Bug#989432: extlinux writes ldlinux.c32 and ldlinux.sys in multiple fragments
Package: extlinux
Version: 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
On a freshly created and nearly empty filesystem, after extlinux
--install creates ldlinux.c32 and ldlinux.sys, they're both fragmented:
$ filefrag ldlinux.*
ldlinux.c32: 3 extents found
ldlinux.sys: 2 extents found
extlinux could avoid this in several different ways, most easily by
reserving enough space for the file up-front using ftruncate.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-12
Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
ii syslinux-common 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
extlinux suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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