| Summary: |
NTFS support for SSTATE |
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[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Meta-yocto
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Reporter: |
Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky> |
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configuration | Assignee: |
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
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| Severity: |
enhancement
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| Priority: |
Low
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CC: |
poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
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| Version: |
unspecified | |
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| Target Milestone: |
Future | |
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| Hardware: |
x86 | |
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| OS: |
Multiple | |
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OS type for building Yocto:
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Type of Regression:
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Verified:
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Documentation change:
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Yes (doc changes required)
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Created attachment 2409 [details] Simple patch to demonstrate the proof of concept. At present SSTATE_CACHE cannot be located on NTFS (Windows) formatted drive. However, there does not seem to be a compelling reason for this and the fix could be relatively simple. What prevents the SSTATE_CACHE to be located on a NTFS is basically that all file names contain the character ':', which is not allowed for NTFS. I believe this character serves only as a delimiter. Replacing this delimiter with some other character (unlikely to be part of a file name) would/should do the trick. I experimented with this a bit, replacing ":" with "^" and located the SSTATE_CACHE to a CIF mounted Windows drive via SSTATE_DIR in local.conf. I was able to rebuild core-image-minimal. (I attached my patch, but it is only meant to be a proof of concept). (For some reason gcc played by different rules and kept showing up with ":", so I had to manually modify the string. All other packages behaved nicely.)