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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:16:20 -0400
From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>
To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc: lausts@acm.org, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Crossbuild Failure on Arm
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:01:17AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 13, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I wanted to add a few NIC cards to my Beaglebone, so my next step was
> > to build a toolchain for the arm arch.
> 
...
> The only caveat:  Local driver development will crash the machine occasionally, which will lose recent writes to the filesystem.  Use git and push your work to some other machine regularly.  NFS can also help here.

What I have done is NFS src and /tmp /var/tmp

Using flash as a R/W like that is slower than using NFS and you stand
less chance of trashing a fs on the board.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim
> 

Diane
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