Comment 12 for bug 1805913

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Marcin Konarski (marcin-konarski+u1) wrote :

This problem affected my virtual environment which I used (via qemu-static) to build my project for RaspberryPI platform. After I upgraded my virtual Raspbian to buster release `readdir` stopped working (as described in this thread) due to mapping of 64 inode numbers to qemu 32bit ARM land. I needed this builder working and I found a workaround in some obscure (2nd page of google result) blog.

Before the work around my virtual Raspbian was just a directory on one of my ext4 partitions. To fix the issue I created image file with dd, formatted with mkfs.ext4 it with `dir_index` option disabled and moved my virual Raspbian onto that newly created filesystem. This fixed the issue for me and my builder started again.

I am posting it here so `dir_index` trick can be easier to found for others in this situation.