On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 21:25 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Tue 2023-02-21 @ 03:44:42 PM, Trevor Woerner via lists.openembedded.org 
> wrote:
> > Make /tmp a real directory in the root filesystem and not a link to an
> > in-memory tmpfs. Otherwise bitbake will run out of inodes on /tmp very 
> > quickly
> > and stop any build.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb 
> > b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > index 3a84de0a2b43..1f7b96a9fcf4 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
> > @@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ fakeroot do_tweak_image () {
> >     # add a /lib64 symlink
> >     # this is needed for building rust-native on a 64-bit build appliance
> >     ln -rs ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/lib ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/lib64
> > +
> > +   # make /tmp a real directory and not a link to an in-memory tmpfs
> > +   # otherwise /tmp will run out of inodes very quickly when bitbaking
> > +   sed -i -e 's#l root root 1777 /tmp /var/tmp#d root root 1777 /tmp 
> > none#' ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/default/volatiles/00_core
> > +   mkdir -p ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/tmp
> > +   chmod 1777 ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/tmp
> >  }
> 
> Richard, this feels rather "hacky" to me. I can't help wonder if it would be
> better to implement a VOLATILE_TMP_DIR mechanism (along the same lines as
> VOLATILE_LOG_DIR)?
> 
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/ref-manual/variables.html?highlight=volatile_log_dir#term-VOLATILE_LOG_DIR
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb#n107

When I saw this, I was wondering about that too...

I think I'll hold off this patch whilst we think about that a bit but
my memory on this area is taking a bit of paging back in.

Cheers,

Richard
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