Re: Update on bordeaux.guix.gnu.org

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> The disk space usage trend is pretty much
>>> linear, so if things continue without any change, I think it will
>>> be
>>> necessary to pause the agents within a month, to avoid filling up
>>> bayfront entirely.
>>
>> Ah, bummer.  I hope we can find a solution one way or another.
>> Certainly we could replicate nars on another machine with more disk,
>> possibly buying the necessary hardware with the project funds.
>
> Remember that I’ve got three 256G SSDs here that I could send to
> wherever bayfront now sits.  With LLVM or a RAID configuration 
> these could just be added to the storage pool — if bayfront has
> sufficient slots for three more disks.

Good to know.  In that case we’d need to come up with (1) an updated
Guix System config with LVM, and (2) a way to copy the existing store
over to the new storage, which sounds tricky if the existing disk is to
be kept.  (Also I think we’re down to 1.5 person who could go on
site. :-/)

Ludo’.