[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] fs: fat: fixes for write under root directory

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 5/13/19 7:49 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> This patch set contains three (independent) bug fixes relating to
> write operations to root directory. See each commit message
> for more details.
>
> Without those fixes, you may lose files that you created under root
> directory or will see the file system corrupted. This will happen
> particularly when you create (or even delete) many files repeatedly
> under root directory.
> (Non-root directory won't be affected.)
>
> I only tested my patches on limited number of file system instances,
> and hope that other people will also try them.
>
> -Takahiro Akashi
>
> AKASHI Takahiro (4):
>   fs: fat:  write to non-cluster-aligned root directory
>   fs: fat: flush a directory cluster properly
>   fs: fat: allocate a new cluster for root directory of fat32
>   test/py: test_fs: add tests for creating/deleting many files

Hello Takahiro,

I would be really happy if these patches would make it into v2019.07.
When running the SCT they make a big difference. I hope you have time to
resubmit these.

Best regards

Heinrich

>
>  fs/fat/fat.c                      |  15 ++--
>  fs/fat/fat_write.c                | 117 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  test/py/tests/test_fs/test_ext.py |  84 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>