Re: [yocto] tmp on NFS

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Looijmans
I can think of various things that would go wrong with tmp on NFS. One of the most obvious example would be to try and change the network configuration while running, and needing some temporary file to manage that.\ I think the expectation is that /tmp should be accessible at all times, and

Re: [yocto] tmp on NFS

2015-10-07 Thread Luke (Lucas) Starrett
: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 3:01 AM To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] tmp on NFS I can think of various things that would go wrong with tmp on NFS. One of the most obvious example would be to try and change the network configuration while running, and needing some temporary file

Re: [yocto] tmp on NFS

2015-10-07 Thread Burton, Ross
On 7 October 2015 at 02:37, Luke (Lucas) Starrett wrote: > I’m aware of the checks added by changes like this: > > > > patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/61107/ > > > > However, I don’t see the reasoning/background documented as to exactly > what is actually broken when

Re: [yocto] tmp on NFS

2015-10-07 Thread Burton, Ross
On 7 October 2015 at 13:59, Burton, Ross wrote: > Follow the link in the patch to the referenced bug, and comment #8 by Mark > Hatle explains the problems that Wind River were seeing in testing: > I should also add that many people buy lots of RAM and do builds with

[yocto] tmp on NFS

2015-10-06 Thread Luke (Lucas) Starrett
Hi, Can anybody give a brief history of time on why using an NFS drive for tmp is necessarily a bad thing, and why we have a sanity check for it? We're doing this without any obvious side effects. I'm aware of the checks added by changes like this: patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/61107/