[Buildroot] Buildroot defconfigs now being built on Travis CI
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Nov 24 22:37:58 UTC 2015
Peter, All,
On 2015-11-24 21:53 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at 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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