At the moment, when we set up a machine for builds, we: - install Debian, leaving plenty of space in the root LVM VG - install the build tools - resize the root fs to make room for the builds
This fs resize runs (mostly) in the background, alongside the first build(s). This is, it turns out, not a good idea: fs resize is massively slower than mkfs (so takes a long time) and very demanding of IO bandwidth (so it makes builds run more slowly). We have worked around this slowness to an extent, for example in fbd803f7 "ts-rumpuserxen-build: Double the build timeout" and ee31a32a "ts-xen-build-prep: Run the backgrounded resize2fs with ionice". This series: - reverts our previous attempt to deal with this problem with ionice - reverts the (ancient) arrangements to resize in the background - instead, arranges to lvcreate and mkfs a new fs for /home/osstest (and copy the existing contents into it). _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
