[OE-core] Why do we still disable mke2fs 64bit support?

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Mon Oct 21 10:24:40 UTC 2019


On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:41:49AM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during a initial system-setup script the mke2fs tools complains about
> the missing 64bit support:
> 
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> mke2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
> 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled.  The larger fields afforded by
> this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify.
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Other build tools e.g. PTXdist or Buildroot don't modify the build-in
> config. I know in the early days this feature break something but
> shouldn't we (re-)think this decision?

Already fixed in zeus:
https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/f5edce401cfb31ebd0200adaba9a201caf7ea705

> Regards,
>   Marco

cu
Adrian

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