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Brian Murrell reopened JENKINS-9190:
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I don't find having to deploy an entirely new tool a reasonable resolution to
this issue. The jenkins artifact archiving process is entirely suitable for
our environment -- if a bit wasteful in the storage of numerous (copies even)
of duplicate artifacts.
I am sure Artifactory is a great tool for people who have a need for for it,
but to simply de-duplicate artifacts it feels like using a sledgehammer to
drive a finishing nail.
> deduplicating build artifacts
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> Key: JENKINS-9190
> URL: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-9190
> Project: Jenkins
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: artifactory
> Affects Versions: current
> Reporter: Brian Murrell
> Assignee: yossis
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> At least in our case, a project can produce quite a number of artifacts, some
> quite large and some which only change occasionally from one build to another
> (i.e. some artifacts change every time, some less frequently). It seems that
> both space and bandwidth could be saved by de-duplicating these seldom
> changed artifacts from one build to another.
> I imagine an algorithm where the server keeps a database of sums and sizes of
> stored artifacts and when a slave is going to send the artifacts of a build
> it first offers the sums and sizes of the artifacts. If the server finds
> potential matches, further verification of duplication could be performed
> (i.e. comparing random samples of the suspected duplicates) and once a
> duplicate has been confirmed, the server can either copy or link the artifact
> locally and tell the slave not to bother sending it.
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