On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:34 PM Rusty Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies, Richard.
>
> Can SSTATE_DIR be shared across build hosts with different OS's  (Ubuntu 
> 18.04, ubuntu 20.04, etc, RHEL)?

yes if you use uninative ( which is default in poky) then it should be
able to share across multiple build hosts.

>
> Our build hosts are somewhat ephemeral.  Occasionally we need to swap out a 
> build host for another one. So to bring on a new fresh build host and have it 
> cooperate correctly with the other build hosts and the PR server, what does 
> it need?  I understand having the NFS mounted SSTATE_DIR, and using the 
> PRSERV_HOST variable set correctly. But what else?  Does the new build host 
> need access to a shared PERSISTENT_DIR or a shared BUILDHISTORY_DIR?
>
> What happens if the shared SSTATE cache get corrupted and has to be deleted?  
>  Won't that cause all the PR server values to reset?  We just want to make 
> sure we know how to recover from a situation like that.

if you preserve PR server data then you should be good. sstate can be
regenerated.

> Thanks a bunch.
> Rusty
> 
>
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