Re: Update on bordeaux.guix.gnu.org

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> While it would be nice for bayfront to have an SSD, it might actually be
> more valuable to use those for some of the machines that do more of the
> building.
>
> harbourfront currently has a broken hard drive (I believe), and
> milano-guix-1 has some slow hard drives that impede it building
> things. I've CC'ed Andreas as I think he knows more about harbourfront,
> and I'll follow up about milano-guix-1 off list.

Okay, thank you.

Note that these disks are (nominally) 250G each.  The spinning platter
disks might be larger than that, so this should be taken into account
when replacing disks.

-- 
Ricardo