Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:11:26 +0200 From: "Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <stdin@niklaas.eu> Subject: Re: Building my own poudriere build system Message-ID: <7D56F18F-3B71-42AD-9885-2453998081DE@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20170624122804.d5cx7n446zqqs67z@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> References: <20170622160501.piqo5hsfwzx7gpvk@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> <EB53E429-681C-4FB1-BE58-E584362C8FCA@freebsd.org> <20170624122804.d5cx7n446zqqs67z@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu>
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> On 24 Jun 2017, at 14:28, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff via = freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > The main problem I face at this stage is that creating the ARMv6 > jail for crossbuilding already takes 1-2 hours each time I spin > up the instance. Each time I deploy the infrastructure the jails > I use for building must be created again. I already tried storing > the jails on S3 too, but that's not really a time saver... Indeed. It's pretty quick to install the release jails, but the armv6 = ones take a long time. I recently switched to using a spot instance, but = I haven't gotten around to building armv6 jails yet. > So, my new idea is to attach an additional *permanent* EBS drive > that can be re-attached each time a new EC2 instance is deployed. > On the EBS there is a ZFS filesystem that stores the jails. This > will generate additional costs but should be a huge time saver. Yes, I have done this as well, so that if/when the spot instance gets = terminated, I don't loose everything off the machine. >> Thanks for sharing! I'm glad I'm not the only one using EC2 for >> building ports :) >=20 > Yes, great to see that I am not alone with that approach too. :-) > Feel free to contribute if you find time (in my next commit I'll > add a proper license). I certainly will. :) >=20 > Niklaas -- Bradley T. Hughes bhughes@freebsd.org
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