On 7 October 2015 at 02:37, Luke (Lucas) Starrett <lstar...@broadcom.com> 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 putting tmp on NFS. Is it time skew, problems > with concurrent file access, something else? > 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: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5442#c8 (background: a lot of the sanity tests are from Wind River who appear to have a pathological need to break software: what happens if I do a build nested 20 directories deep, what happens if I've a space in the build directory name, and so on) Ross
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