From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tinyArch.localdomain (unknown [78.110.170.148]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4F7E0121A for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 01:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.21] (unknown [195.171.99.130]) by tinyArch.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A96EE21B85 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:45:43 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4F0AB04C.2060304@communistcode.co.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:15:56 +0000 From: Jack Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111224 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Does my build disk's filesystem make a difference? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:16:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/01/12 15:16, autif khan wrote: > You are better off with one of the dual boot OSes in a virtual machine > that a dual boot situation where you are trying to write to NTFS from > linux or trying to work with ext2fs tools from windows. > > I do not even know if you can create equivalent of symlinks (used > extensively in yocto) on an NTFS > > In theory, it might work, but NTFS was not built for linux, likewise, > ext4 was not meant to be used for windows. It is a bad idea. > > You know - unless this happens to be your master's research thesis :-) > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: >> I am creating a Yocto Project build system. For various reasons, it is a >> dual-boot system, win7& linux (probably mint 12, haven't decided). I have a >> primary boot disk with both operating systems and a large secondary disk to >> use for build trees etc. >> >> Does the filesystem on the big secondary disk matter? Ideally I would like >> to be able to get to the large data disk from both operating systems. That >> would necessitate NTFS, as win7 does not speak ext4 reliably, but I don't >> want to slow my builds down. >> >> -- >> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog >> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >> > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto I'm no expert in this either but I am unsure how NTFS handles file permissions, something else that could horribly break! If I were you I would do as suggested earlier and run Win7 in a virtual machine then use a shared directory/network shares system. Otherwise, you could format as ext3 and use the 3rd party drivers available to Windows for reading. Again though I don't know how permissions are handled or anything like that so it may be ok for browsing but I wouldn't recommend major changes through it. Jack.