[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] fs: fat: allocate a new cluster for root directory of fat32

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Tue May 14 17:30:41 UTC 2019


On 5/13/19 7:49 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Contrary to fat12/16, fat32 can have root directory at any location
> and its size can be expanded.
> Without this patch, root directory won't grow properly and so we will
> eventually fail to add files under root directory. Please note that this
> can happen even if you delete many files as deleted directory entries
> are not reclaimed but just marked as "deleted" under the current
> implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>

Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>


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