[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] fs/ext2: Remove support for auto-calculation of rootfs size

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Mar 25 13:43:06 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:20:29 +0100, Sébastien Szymanski wrote:
> Auto-calculation of the rootfs size cannot be done in a reliable way as
> it depends on the host filesystem and is broken on non ext4 host. [1] [2]
> So let the user specify the size he wants for his rootfs.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8831
> [2] https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=9496
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski at armadeus.com>
> ---
>  Config.in.legacy        | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  fs/ext2/Config.in       | 12 ++----------
>  fs/ext2/ext2.mk         |  1 -
>  package/mke2img/mke2img | 20 +-------------------
>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Applied to master after taking into account the suggestion of Arnout to
use a 60MB size by default.

Thanks!

Thomas
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