[OE-core] too tight inode limits on ext4?

[Jonathan Liu]

On 26/07/2013 11:27 PM, Riku Voipio wrote:
> So the image has plenty of space:
>
> root at genericarmv8:~# df -h
>
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/root       2.3G  961M  1.2G  45% /
>
> root at genericarmv8:~#
>
> but only 48 free inodes:
>
> root at genericarmv8:~# df -i
> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/root       34440 34392     48  100% /
>
> ext3 image is much more sensible:
>
> root at genericarmv8:~# df -i
> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/root      293888 34392 259496   12% /
> e
>
> I understand that the E in OE is about embedded, but still only 48 free
> inodes seems a bit too steep. I would presume the amount of free inodes
> should be about the same for both ext3 and ext4.
>
> Also fiddling with EXTRA_IMAGECMD_ext4 doesn't seem to have any effect,
> so currently ext4 images are not very useful.
>
> Riku
Try Robert Yang's patches which build ext4 using mkfs.ext4 and debugfs 
rather than genext2fs: 
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=robert/image

Regards,
Jonathan