[U-Boot] ext3 inode_size

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Weirich, Bernhard",

In message <CE92B8B581B4584FB8CA86B51EDE8AC51640BAEBCB at wupexchange.riedel.net> you wrote:
> 
> I use ext3 with journal from u-boot and it worked fine using ext2load, but since I updated my desktop to the ext2fs library version 1.41.4 ext2ls in u-boot displays an empty directoy.
> 
> I've noticed a difference in the mke2fs.conf files of the version 
> 
> old:
> inode_size = 128
> new:
> inode_size = 256
> 
> Thus, I changed the inode size to 128 and it works again.
> So I wonder if the inode size is hardcoded in u-boot. Maybe someone likes to fix this... at least it is not urgent.

This a known problem. Patches have been posted, but they were not
working at all. Requests for fixed versions were not answered.

Maybe you want to dig out the old patches and try to fix that?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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