[U-Boot] [PATCH V5 1/2] ext4fs ls load support

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On 09/12/2012 03:57 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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.3080304@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).

This is a 240G partition.

> I was under the impression that ext4 is not mountable as ext3.

You can go ext3->"ext4"->ext3, it's only when you have fsck rebuild and
make use of extents, iirc, that it's no longer mountable as ext3.

-- 
Tom