[U-Boot] Problems with ext2ls & SD

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Karl,

In message <669754ad0903281214x77796b95x76062f1c428ecda8 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I am simply using fdisk under Ubuntu 8.04 and a 2GB SD card, I create a
> primary partition of type 0x83. When I run dumpe2fs it shows an inode size
> of 256 bytes.

I confirm the problem. I finally found some time to run some tests,
and was able to reproduce the problem.


I even re-tested the old patch that Ryan Chen  posted  long  ago  (in
July  2008),  but  as  my  earlier  tests  indicated,  this  patch is
seriously broken and does not work at all.


So we have to state that ext2 file system support in U-Boot is broken
for recent ext2 versions which use bigger inode sizes.

Best regards,
Viele Grüße,

Wolfgang Denk

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