Increase sparse image block size when ROOTFS_SIZE is smaller than
the minimum needed for ext4 to fit into it.

[YOCTO #7664]

Signed-off-by: Alex Franco <alejandro.fra...@linux.intel.com>
---
 meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 35ceb7b..61ce222 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -49,8 +49,16 @@ oe_mkext234fs () {
                extra_imagecmd=$@
        fi
 
+       # If generating an empty image the size of the sparse block should be 
large
+       # enough to allocate an ext4 filesystem using 4096 bytes per inode, 
this is
+       # about 60K, so dd needs a minimum count of 60, with bs=1024 (bytes per 
IO)
+       eval local COUNT=\"0\"
+       eval local MIN_COUNT=\"60\"
+       if [ $ROOTFS_SIZE -lt $MIN_COUNT ]; then
+               eval COUNT=\"$MIN_COUNT\"
+       fi
        # Create a sparse image block
-       dd if=/dev/zero of=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.$fstype 
seek=$ROOTFS_SIZE count=0 bs=1k
+       dd if=/dev/zero of=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.$fstype 
seek=$ROOTFS_SIZE count=$COUNT bs=1024
        mkfs.$fstype -F $extra_imagecmd 
${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.$fstype -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}
 }
 
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2.5.0

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