[yocto] Creating a EXT4 rootfs instead of EXT3: How?

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Nick D'Ademo <nickdademo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Nicolas.
>
> It seems the problem is that .hddimg uses EXT3 by default (after looking
> at image_types.bbclass).
>

yeah, you're right. ext3 is pretty much hard coded there (and in
image-live.bbclass)

> The ROOTFS type for my build is set in
> /meta/conf/machine/include/ia32-base.inc: IMAGE_FSTYPES += "live"
>
> Is there a way to make the HDDIMG use EXT4 instead?
>
i don't know if there is a technical reason why ext3 is being hardcoded.
right now it doesn't seem possible to easily use ext4.
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