contrib/dir2fs

#!/bin/sh

dir="$1"
dev="$2"

if [ "$1" = "--help" ] || [ ! -d "${dir}" ]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 dir [mke2fs args] dev"
	exit 1
fi

shift

# Goal: Put all the files at the beginning (which mke2fs does) and minimize
# the number of free inodes given the minimum number of blocks required.
# Hence all this math to get the inode ratio just right.

bytes="$(du -ks "${dir}" | awk '{print $1}')"
bytes="$((bytes * 1024))"
inodes="$(find "${dir}" -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%i' | sort -g | uniq | wc -l)"
block_sz=4096
inode_sz=256
sb_overhead=4096
blocks_per_group="$((block_sz * 8))"
bytes_per_group="$((blocks_per_group * block_sz))"
inode_bytes="$((inodes * inode_sz))"

# Estimate overhead with the minimum number of groups...
nr_groups="$(( (bytes + inode_bytes + bytes_per_group - 1) / bytes_per_group))"
inode_bytes_per_group="$((inode_bytes / nr_groups))"
inode_blocks_per_group="$(( (inode_bytes_per_group + (block_sz - 1)) / block_sz ))"
per_grp_overhead="$(( ((3 + inode_blocks_per_group) * block_sz) + 64 ))"
overhead="$(( sb_overhead + (per_grp_overhead * nr_groups) ))"
used_bytes="$((bytes + overhead))"

# Then do it again with the real number of groups.
nr_groups="$(( (used_bytes + (bytes_per_group - 1)) / bytes_per_group))"
tot_blocks="$((nr_groups * blocks_per_group))"
tot_bytes="$((tot_blocks * block_sz))"

ratio="$((bytes / inodes))"
mkfs_blocks="$((tot_blocks * 4 / 3))"

mke2fs -i "${ratio}" -T ext4 -d "${dir}" -O ^resize_inode,sparse_super2,metadata_csum,64bit,^has_journal -E packed_meta_blocks=1,num_backup_sb=0 -b "${block_sz}" -I "${inodesz}" -F "${dev}" "${mkfs_blocks}" || exit

e2fsck -fyD "${dev}"

blocks="$(dumpe2fs -h "${dev}" 2>&1 | grep 'Block count:' | awk '{print $3}')"
while resize2fs -f -M "${dev}"; do
	new_blocks="$(dumpe2fs -h "${dev}" 2>&1 | grep 'Block count:' | awk '{print $3}')"
	if [ "${new_blocks}" -eq "${blocks}" ]; then
		break;
	fi
	blocks="${new_blocks}"
done

if [ ! -b "${dev}" ]; then
    truncate -s "$((blocks * block_sz))" "${dev}" || (e2image -ar "${dev}" "${dev}.min"; mv "${dev}.min" "${dev}")
fi

e2fsck -fy "${dev}"

dir_blocks="$((bytes / block_sz))"
overhead="$((blocks - dir_blocks))"
echo "Minimized image overhead: $((100 * overhead / dir_blocks))%"

exit 0