[ros-dev] MSVC and GCC Windows Buildslaves are back - old ISOs are not

[Christoph von Wittich]

What about deduplication?

Am 04.10.2016 um 22:10 schrieb Colin Finck:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to Dmitry Chapyshev's generous donation of rare FB-DIMM memory
> modules, our Buildserver has enough RAM for the Win7 buildslave VM now.
>
> I've fired it up and while builds are much slower than before, they are
> at least being done again!
> Note that Doxygen, ISO hosting, and all three buildslaves are on a
> single HDD-backed server right now, so don't expect any performance
> miracles.
> I'm counting on Aleksey here to get us our remaining servers back this
> month :)
>
> Unfortunately, our HDDs were also lacking space, so I had to move the
> public "bootcd_old" folder from iso.reactos.org to another (private)
> place. It contained BootCD ISOs from 2009 to 2012, totalling 421GB.
> Any idea how to deal with them in the long run? I can basically think of
> 4 possibilities:
>
> * We remove ISOs older than 4 years, because nobody would really do
> regression-testing with them.
>
> * We buy additional HDDs every year and continue to host them ourselves
> just next to the newer ISOs.
>
> * We find a free file hosting service for OSS projects that can cope
> with these amounts of data. Not sure SF.net is the right choice here..
>
> * We choose a paid data storage service like Amazon AWS.
>
> As always, comments are very welcome!
>
>
> - Colin
>
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