[yocto] tmp on NFS

[Burton, Ross]

On 7 October 2015 at 02:37, Luke (Lucas) Starrett <lstarret at broadcom.com>
wrote:

> I’m aware of the checks added by changes like this:
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> patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/61107/
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> 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?
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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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