On 25 July 2012 23:30, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
Thanks for the notes and sorry for missing the meeting (was actually around but thought it was a full-day event reminder that was firing rather than a real meeting, and didn't see the meeting in the daily google calendar email! sorry).
I'm fine with the plan, but it strikes me that we're considering Cambridge for this. Ok, we will eventually get a leased line but:
- Cambridge is not a real DC
- we're getting recommendations to use EC2 or other major cloud providers to run everything we're doing rather than trying to build our own infrastructure
- the relatively large storage requirements would be more easily addressed with services like S3 than with the expensive RAID arrays we'd have to buy
I don't want a split solution where we use one thing for x86 and another for ARM and there's no way of doing PandaBoards in the cloud. Might be interesting in the future to treat the Pandas as a cloud like pool and see if there's a tool that gives a EC2 like API on top.
I want the same storage solution for the x86 and ARM builds. It seems inefficient to push the build results up to S3, especially the ~100 MB binaries. 500 GB is $60/month on S3 and I don't think the sysadmin costs will be any different.
My tools are also bad and use the filesystem as the database. They'd need reworking to run against S3.
-- Michael