On 09/12/2012 05:49 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: >> On 08/13/2012 06:52 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >>> Dear Rob Herring, >>> >>> In message <50244d5a.3080...@gmail.com> you wrote: >>>> >>>> I reported already that the prior version that ext4 has issues with >>>> sub-directories. I don't think that has been addressed in V5. Some >>>> directories show up fine and some don't. So it's kind of random whether >>>> u-boot can read a /boot directory. This was after full ubuntu installs. >>>> I'd guess a simple test with a couple of files and directories will not >>>> show the problem. >>> >>> We really need a test case here. In my (certainly not very extensive) >>> tests I didn't see such a problem. >>> >>> Can you please describe what failed for you? >>> >> >> I do an ubuntu install to a single ext4 fs and then ext2ls gives this: > [snip] >> The problem is in the directories with sizes of 0. It does seem to be >> directories with higher blkno's. Perhaps the lack of support for hash >> table directory entries is a problem. Just guessing here as I don't know >> much about ext4 structure. >> >> I haven't been able to produce a simple example just creating a bunch of >> files and directories, so only the disk after an ubuntu install has the >> problem. > > I took an Ubuntu install I had (for x86) that was on a USB drive, had > been pretty extensively used, and was is ext4. I couldn't find any size > 0 directories. Are you able to reproduce this problem on other > hardware? Is the image in question NOT remountable as ext3 (extents is > set, generated) ? My biggest concern is breakage among ext2/3 > filesystems. Thanks!
What size partition? It is also fine for me with a small 1.2GB partition. I only see the problem with larger partitions (most of a 250GB drive). I was under the impression that ext4 is not mountable as ext3. Rob _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot