On 20 May 2011 17:12, James Westby <james.wes...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2011 16:03:16 +0100, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > wrote: >> We're only doing this once a month, we should just produce images >> for everything rather than trying to second guess which we can get >> away with not generating. > > While that's a nice sentiment, we can't ignore the disk space usage that > this implies. > > If we take as an example 6 supported boards, and 6 images (3x2G, 1x1G, > 1x.5G, 1x.1G), that's ~48G per month, so in one year ~0.5T of images. I > haven't done the maths to factor in the bandwidth here. > > We can only do this if we change our image retention policy. I think > that the benefit of this change is worth doing that, but we can't > naïvely start generating all of this without considering these > questions.
If disk space is a problem then we can take the other approach that was suggested at UDS, which is that we autogenerate images on the fly as they are asked for and keep a cache of the most recently used ones. I thought the reason we opted to do the simple "just statically generate images for each monthly release" was exactly that for a monthly thing we thought the disk space usage was acceptable. -- PMM _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
