From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot defconfigs now being built on Travis CI
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:37:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151124223758.GB3904@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1uz15n2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>
Peter, All,
On 2015-11-24 21:53 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
> >> Is that XFS issue something we want to fix before 2015.11?
> > I don't think we can fix it before 2015.11. The hack I've done in
> > Travis is just what it is: a crude hack. The underlying problem is that
> > we ask the host filesystem how many blocks are needed to store
> > output/target/. It works fine if your host filesystem == target
> > filesystem == ext2/3/4. And it probably works for most target
> > filesystems, by chance. But it is clearly not correct, since the
> > filesystem on your host may be different than the one used on your
> > target.
>
> > Specifically, XFS stores small files and symlinks directly inside the
> > inode instead of allocating a block for them. So the number of blocks
> > needed to store output/target on the host is much smaller than what is
> > needed on the target ext2 filesystem.
>
> Ok :/
It's been tricky to track down...
[--SNIP--]
> > Isn't the last 1000 lines of log already displayed in the Travis
> > console sufficient to debug most problems anyway?
>
> Probably it is, I just saw that you were copying them to the
> autobuilders.
Thomas did that so we could try to reproduce locally. Since it was
working on our machines, we hunted a difference on the host. And
suddenly, XFS... :-/
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 21:33 [Buildroot] Buildroot defconfigs now being built on Travis CI Thomas Petazzoni
2015-11-23 21:51 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-11-24 17:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-11-24 20:53 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-11-24 22:37 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2015-11-24 22:42 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-11-24 22:53 ` Yann E. MORIN
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