On 06/01/12 15:53, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
I am creating a Yocto Project build system. For various reasons, it is a
dual-boot system, win7 & linux (probably mint 12, haven't decided). I
have a primary boot disk with both operating systems and a large
secondary disk to use for build trees etc.
Does the filesystem on the big secondary disk matter? Ideally I would
like to be able to get to the large data disk from both operating
systems. That would necessitate NTFS, as win7 does not speak ext4
reliably, but I don't want to slow my builds down.
Erk! I'm not familiar with NTFS but the thought of this scares me, I
expect you'd be opening yourself up to a world of hurt as:
a) NTFS isn't a first class citizen of Linux.
b) according to wikipedia NTFS has a 255 character filename limit - I
don't know for certain this is a problem but I wouldn't be surprised if
it is.
Will you be storing anything on the disk that isn't build related? If
you anticipate doing a lot of builds you really want to a) use a
filesystem that is Linux native and b) tweak the filesystem to reduce
the number of writes made.
If you just want/need to be able to look at the build system pieces
under WinOS then you could try:
http://www.ext2fsd.com/
Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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