From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugs at busybox.net Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:24:58 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] [buildroot 0000369]: hardlinks break when creating root_fs_i386.ext2 Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net The following issue has been CLOSED ====================================================================== http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=369 ====================================================================== Reported By: jakelly Assigned To: buildroot ====================================================================== Project: buildroot Issue ID: 369 Category: Other Reproducibility: always Severity: minor Priority: normal Status: closed Resolution: open Fixed in Version: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 08-08-2005 10:26 PDT Last Modified: 03-20-2007 10:24 PDT ====================================================================== Summary: hardlinks break when creating root_fs_i386.ext2 Description: hardlinks break when creating root_fs_i386.ext2 I noticed this when trying to fit a small buildroot onto a floppy. I had e2fsck, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3 all hardlinked in build_i386/root/sbin, but they became separate inodes in root_fs_i386.ext2. The genext2fs man page says it does not support hard links, and that "hard links present in the input tree will be represented as separate files in the ext2 image." Well that's not much good when you need to squeeze root into a very small space. So now I create my own filesystem image, without using genext2fs. It's not too hard to replace genext2fs with a script, and maintain the hardlinks. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bernhardf - 03-20-07 10:24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This should be fixed in the meantime. We switched to genext2fs-1.4 recently. Please re-open this bug if you still encounter problems. thanks Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 08-08-05 10:26 jakelly New Issue 08-08-05 10:26 jakelly Status new => assigned 08-08-05 10:26 jakelly Assigned To => uClibc 02-12-07 05:50 vapier Assigned To uClibc => buildroot 03-20-07 10:24 bernhardf Status assigned => closed 03-20-07 10:24 bernhardf Note Added: 0002250 ======================================================================