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.

I don't quite understand your maths there; if you look at the Ubuntu ARM images
they are 540MB for netbook and 200MB for headless (compressed).
So at 6 boards to support that's ~4.2GB/month or ~50GB/year which is a lot
less scary.

Dave

_______________________________________________
linaro-dev mailing list
linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev

Reply via email to