Hi Tony,
go to the global system settings page and click on "Advanced..." just
under "Jenkins Home Directory". Now check out the following settings
(explanations taken from the online help):
"Workspace Root Directory" : Changing this value allows you to put
workspaces on SSD, SCSI, or even ram disks. Default value is
${ITEM_ROOTDIR}/workspace.
"Build Record Root Directory": Changing this value allows you to put
build records on a bigger but slow disk, while keeping JENKINS_HOME on
highly available backed up drive, for example. Default value is
${ITEM_ROOTDIR}/builds.
ITEM_ROOTDIR is the directory corresponding to your project, e.g. a
project 'foobar' by default gets an ITEM_ROOTDIR of
${JENKINS_HOME}/jobs/foobar.
Cheers,
Simon.
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Tony P (09.04.2012 20:21):
Being able to separate the build/archive directory structure from the
configuration structure was discussed sometime back. A Jira was
created and apparently in Jenkins 1.421. This sounded very useful.
The current changelog says for release 1.421:
Allow build directories and workspace directories in
$JENKINS_HOME to be
placed elsewhere. (issue 8446)
And Issues 8446 calls this "'builds' directory in a separate
location?" and is marked as resolved.
I have spent sometime trying to find any docs on this and how to use
it but I just can't seem to get it to do anything. I have tried
setting the environment variables "HUDSON_BUILDS" and
"JENKINS_BUILDS" but whatever I do nothing different happens.
Does anyone know how to use these or can point me to docs on the
subject.
