Hacking Compiling WBFS on Mac OS X

[joda]

That said, everything under the GPL is there.

No need to rehash the derivatives issue -- I think you misconstrued my reply. I am saying that you just don't need to actually include the source in the package (that you needlessly over-accommodated

), the GPL just says that you have to note it somewhere and have it available. I was just suggesting that you make a note of it somewhere (perhaps around the trademarks section of the About dialog) and not bother with shipping the source in the zip.

Problem there is that the GPL states that you then have to keep supply of the source for three years, whereas if you release it this way, it's a one shot.

Posts merged

Heck, I reformat my web server more often than that ...

 

[collin]

Problem there is that the GPL states that you then have to keep supply of the source for three years, whereas if you release it this way, it's a one shot.

Posts merged

Heck, I reformat my web server more often than that ...

Heh, fair point. Then may I suggest just putting it in the bundle (in Resources)?

 

[darkten]

Problem there is that the GPL states that you then have to keep supply of the source for three years, whereas if you release it this way, it's a one shot.

Posts merged

Heck, I reformat my web server more often than that ...

Heh, fair point. Then may I suggest just putting it in the bundle (in Resources)?

I have a better suggestion:

Why don't WE not talk about this. Neither of you are the copyright holders of any of the assets involved.

Ya' feel me?

Oh BTW...

Kwiirk is in violation of GPL 2. Let's see if Collin can tell me how, and why.

d10

 

[joda]

Why don't WE not talk about this. Neither of you are the copyright holders of any of the assets involved.

d10
Fair enough. (I have a thing for letting weird sayings go unanswered ... sorry =)

On another note, my question remain:
QUOTE(joda @ Apr 8 2009, 05:30 AM) Just one question, does this implementation of wbfs suffer from the same shortcomings as the original/usb-loader one with regards to file system corruption, when you sometimes remove a game somewhere in the middle and then add more? I myself had to format and start over after games started overwriting each other, spreading the misery around--fixing one fucked up another.

 

[om_nous]

Joda,

We have not encountered that bug, if it is a bug in wbfs then it 'could' happen since we are using the wbfs binary. If it eases your mind at all I have done an excessive amount of adding/removing/extracting/renaming on my HDD and have not had a problem.

If there is a bug and a fix is released you can always apply that to the wbfs source included in the zip, build and replace the wbfs in the resources.

 

[Dookieman]

Problem there is that the GPL states that you then have to keep supply of the source for three years, whereas if you release it this way, it's a one shot.

Posts merged

Heck, I reformat my web server more often than that ...

Heh, fair point. Then may I suggest just putting it in the bundle (in Resources)?

Dude, seriously, who cares? Stop bothering them about GPL, they know what they are doing.

 

[joda]

Joda,

We have not encountered that bug, if it is a bug in wbfs then it 'could' happen since we are using the wbfs binary. If it eases your mind at all I have done an excessive amount of adding/removing/extracting/renaming on my HDD and have not had a problem.

If there is a bug and a fix is released you can always apply that to the wbfs source included in the zip, build and replace the wbfs in the resources.

Thanks for the reply. Good to know.

I did encounter this once, but it might as well have been because of a messed up partition table. I zeroed out the disc completely after that and made sure it got partitioned properly this time--I was just using a drive lying around as is. I guess I'll extract all games and do a little testing then ... =)

Anyways, once more, thanks for an excellent application!

 

[lpl]

WBFS for MacOS X

Enjoy,
- omi

good work, It's working well, Thank you!

 

[tps2d]

I figured out why I'm able to get 13+MB/sec and only 2-5MB/sec using your application...

Using your newest app:

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂdisk4ÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpuÂÂÂÂ load average
ÂÂÂÂKB/t tpsÂÂMB/sÂÂus sy idÂÂ 1mÂÂ 5mÂÂ 15m
ÂÂ 19.92ÂÂ32ÂÂ0.63ÂÂ 4ÂÂ3 92ÂÂ0.23 0.16 0.10
ÂÂÂÂ4.00 1537ÂÂ6.01ÂÂ 4 15 80ÂÂ0.37 0.19 0.11
ÂÂÂÂ4.00 1532ÂÂ5.99ÂÂ 3 15 82ÂÂ0.34 0.18 0.10

Using the original wbfs I compiled (without the speed enhancement from the last page) using command:

$ ./wbfs -p /dev/disk4s1 add MarioKart.iso

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂdisk4ÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpuÂÂÂÂ load average
ÂÂÂÂKB/t tpsÂÂMB/sÂÂus sy idÂÂ 1mÂÂ 5mÂÂ 15m
ÂÂ 13.78ÂÂ51ÂÂ0.68ÂÂ 4ÂÂ3 92ÂÂ0.19 0.16 0.10
ÂÂÂÂ4.00 1051ÂÂ4.11ÂÂ 2 10 88ÂÂ0.17 0.16 0.10
ÂÂÂÂ4.00 1056ÂÂ4.13ÂÂ 1 10 88ÂÂ0.16 0.16 0.10

Using that same exact binary, with one small change in the command:

$ ./wbfs -p /dev/rdisk4s1 add MarioKart.iso

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂdisk4ÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpuÂÂÂÂ load average
ÂÂÂÂKB/t tpsÂÂMB/sÂÂus sy idÂÂ 1mÂÂ 5mÂÂ 15m
ÂÂ 12.26ÂÂ61ÂÂ0.73ÂÂ 4ÂÂ3 92ÂÂ0.13 0.15 0.09
ÂÂ128.00 136 16.95ÂÂ 2ÂÂ7 90ÂÂ0.28 0.18 0.10
ÂÂ128.00 111 13.82ÂÂ 3ÂÂ7 90ÂÂ0.26 0.18 0.10
ÂÂ128.00 112 14.00ÂÂ 2ÂÂ8 90ÂÂ0.24 0.17 0.10

Using the binary provided with your application and the "rdisk" instead of "disk":

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂdisk4ÂÂÂÂÂÂ cpuÂÂÂÂ load average
ÂÂÂÂKB/t tpsÂÂMB/sÂÂus sy idÂÂ 1mÂÂ 5mÂÂ 15m
ÂÂ 40.26ÂÂ67ÂÂ2.61ÂÂ 4ÂÂ4 92ÂÂ0.21 0.25 0.15
2048.00ÂÂ 7 14.40ÂÂ 2ÂÂ8 89ÂÂ0.20 0.25 0.15
2048.00ÂÂ 7 14.80ÂÂ 2ÂÂ8 90ÂÂ0.18 0.24 0.15

Obviously OS X handles writing to "rdisk" differently than "disk". I'm not really sure why. Any chance you could update your app to use rdisk?

 

[darkten]

Yeah. I'll do it right now.

Just finished fixing the MakeHBC.

Gimmie a few mins

d10

 

[tps2d]

Great! As you can see, using rdisk with your binary dumps the game to the HD in 2MB chunks. Do you envision that being a problem? It's basically the same speed as the 128KB chunks dumped by the initial ported binary.

 

[om_nous]

Here is a new build using rdisk, everything works good I get 24mb/s write speed.

WBFS for MacOS X
*Also updated the original post*
-omi

 

[toni.belangenani]

Wow, great to see that you guys took the effort to improve this already excellent app! Thanks a lot for making it available for all mac users out there!

As soon as the usb-loader itself is a bit more stable, i'll definately recommend this to some of my friends!

 

[g3power]

I did encounter this once, but it might as well have been because of a messed up partition table. I zeroed out the disc completely after that and made sure it got partitioned properly this time--I was just using a drive lying around as is. I guess I'll extract all games and do a little testing then ... =)
I did encounter this, too. At the time I attributed it to the mad killing of the wbfs process I had been doing during the debugging phase. This probably is, and I am very sorry to say that, a fragmentation issue!

QUOTE(tps2d @ Apr 8 2009, 08:55 AM) Obviously OS X handles writing to "rdisk" differently than "disk". I'm not really sure why. Any chance you could update your app to use rdisk?

Silly of me not to think of trying that

 

[darkten]

Silly of me not to think of trying that

LOL yeah, I kind of did a big "Oh...DUUUUUH" myself

 

[encaputxat]

one member of other website says that runs well in his ibook g4, but i don't know why i can't detect my western digital hard drive with my powerbook... a window from finder apears and says me to ignore, inicialize or get it out.

 

[g3power]

one member of other website says that runs well in his ibook g4, but i don't know why i can't detect my western digital hard drive with my powerbook... a window from finder apears and says me to ignore, inicialize or get it out.

Just click "ignore". It should work then, if it has already been processed through init on the command line or on your Wii.

Just connect your usb drive to the Wii and format/init through the USB Loader! (The usual "you will lose all your data" applies.)

If you don't have the device connected to your Mac during boot, but connect it later (!) the message will not come up.

 

[joshysquashy]

Many thanks! I think we can proudly say that Mac's have the best software for managing WBFS partitions!

Thanks to everyone involved, I really appreciate it!

 

[om_nous]

one member of other website says that runs well in his ibook g4, but i don't know why i can't detect my western digital hard drive with my powerbook... a window from finder apears and says me to ignore, inicialize or get it out.

Just click "ignore". It should work then, if it has already been processed through init on the command line or on your Wii.

Just connect your usb drive to the Wii and format/init through the USB Loader! (The usual "you will lose all your data" applies.)

If you don't have the device connected to your Mac during boot, but connect it later (!) the message will not come up.

Just to expand upon this some, if you open WBFS for MacOS X before you connect the drive you will not get the error. We intercept the disk before the system can give you that error.

-omi

 

[matriculated]

Kudos to the team for this program! Not only are you guys give us Mac users a nice free gift but wrapping it up in a fantastic GUI is just icing on the cake! Thank you guys so much!