[PATCH 2/2] sd_card_image, create a psuedo-random pattern fill for use by zhashfs

[James Cameron]

Instead of creating a sparse image file into which the filesystems are
created, create the image file from a psuedo-random pattern of 4096
bytes, so that zhashfs may skip the unused blocks.
---
 modules/sd_card_image/image.50.makefs.sh     |   11 ++++++++++-
 modules/sd_card_image/postimage.50.makezd.sh |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/sd_card_image/image.50.makefs.sh b/modules/sd_card_image/image.50.makefs.sh
index c9ed3b8..6e61eb7 100644
--- a/modules/sd_card_image/image.50.makefs.sh
+++ b/modules/sd_card_image/image.50.makefs.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,16 @@ make_image()
 	[ -z "$ext" ] && ext="zd"
 	local img=$intermediatesdir/$(image_name).$ext.disk.img
 
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=$BLOCK_SIZE count=0 seek=$(($image_size / $BLOCK_SIZE))
+        dd if=/dev/urandom of=$img.fill bs=4096 count=1 2>/dev/null
+        rm -f $img.fill.2mb
+        for x in $(seq 512); do cat $img.fill >> $img.fill.2mb; done
+        local n=$(($image_size / (1048576 * 2) + 1))
+        rm -f $img
+        dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=1M count=1 2>/dev/null
+        for x in $(seq $n); do cat $img.fill.2mb >> $img; done
+        truncate --size=$image_size $img
+        rm -f $img.fill.2mb
+
 	/sbin/sfdisk -S 32 -H 32 --force -uS $img <<EOF
 8192,131072,83,*
 139264,,,
diff --git a/modules/sd_card_image/postimage.50.makezd.sh b/modules/sd_card_image/postimage.50.makezd.sh
index a7338d2..c427626 100644
--- a/modules/sd_card_image/postimage.50.makezd.sh
+++ b/modules/sd_card_image/postimage.50.makezd.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ for line in $(env); do
 	if [[ "$make_zd" == 1 ]]; then
 		echo "Making ZD image for $output_name..."
 		$bindir/zhashfs 0x20000 sha256 $diskimg $output.zsp $output
+		rm -f $diskimg.fill
 
 		echo "Creating MD5sum of $output_name..."
 		pushd $outputdir >/dev/null
@@ -41,4 +42,3 @@ for line in $(env); do
 	fi
 done
 IFS=$oIFS
-
-- 
1.7.4.1


-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/