http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989284 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989284#c23 --- Comment #23 from Stefan Brüns --- (In reply to Matwey Kornilov from comment #22)

(In reply to Alexander Graf from comment #16)

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(In reply to Matwey Kornilov from comment #15)

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Why do we need 64bit for ARM SD Images? Does anyone really has such a large SD card?

Not all targets have to be an SD card. The RPi for example just grew support for USB boot, in which case you could put the image on storage that could definitely exceed the 32bit boundaries.

But, we will not be able to boot from it anyway, right?

On the RPi3, this should be possible. On the RPi1/2, you still need the primary bootloader on the SD card, but after that everything can be on the harddisk. And anyway, there is more stuff than RPis ...

So, I suppose e2fsprogs must be patched not to use 64bit by default until u-boot grew 64bit support.

Experimental patch is available. Another important aspect of the 64bit feature, it allows to add checksums to *all* ext4 metadata. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.