Backport a patch to fix hardlinks filetype:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " e2fsprogs"
$ ./tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/fsck.ext4 tmp/deploy/images/qemux86/core-image-minimal-qemux86.ext4 -f
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Setting filetype for entry 'fsck.ext2' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'mkfs.ext4' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'fsck.ext4' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'mkfs.ext4dev' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'fsck.ext3' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'mkfs.ext2' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'mkfs.ext3' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Setting filetype for entry 'e2fsck' in /sbin (80) to 1.
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
test.img: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
test.img: 799/65536 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 14652/262144 blocks
Now when run it again, we may get:
[snip]
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
[snip]
test.img: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
test.img: 799/65536 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 14652/262144 blocks
This is fine since it is optimizing, from "man e2fsck":
e2fsck may sometimes optimize a few directories --- for example, if
directory indexing is enabled and a directory is not indexed and would
benefit from being indexed, or if the index structures are corrupted
and need to be rebuilt.
[YOCTO #8544]
(From OE-Core rev: 02ad8e3c32656a74fa82284105706ae67e5108f3)
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>