Partition scheme on BSD for QT development

jsulm

@devs4p said in Partition scheme on BSD for QT development:

rest (~77TB) for QT

My Qt installation is 2.5GB. What are you going to do with 77TB?! Why do you think you need that much space for Qt? I really don't get it.

devs4p

@JonB @jsulm
Ports building (compiling/maintaing) :::: stupid app-misc/mc (Midnight Commander) requires 4GB to be built (binary is ~2MB in size), and I build a lot so it will quickly fill up.... This + countless Qt projects (many of them well over 100 GB.....) and I suppose we will be in need for even more space quite soon.....

JonB

@devs4p said in Partition scheme on BSD for QT development:

@JonB @jsulm

countless Qt projects (many of them well over 100 GB.....)

We're interested to hear how you come to fill 100GB+ for a Qt project? With what?? And you'll still need 770 of such projects... !

devs4p

@JonB QtFS alone fills 276GB.

Pablo J. Rogina

@devs4p without much further detail about what Qt project(s) you plan to compile/build, I'll assume you have some kind of build farm/continuous integration server, so I'd say you may want to contact the people behind the Qt own CI platform. Some related posts here and here just in case.

SGaist

Hi,

You have to give more information about the projects you plan to build. For example the only qtfs project I currently know stands for QuickTime fast start and it’s not big at all and unrelated to Qt.

JonB

@devs4p
Assuming you're still here, whatever you actually want it for, a friend of mine suggests that --- although he has no experience of it --- you might like to look at formatting your disk to use ZFS, which may allow resizing down the line

devs4p

Updates comming::

@Pablo-J-Rogina Thats exactly this. CI. Or even more specifically AppVeyor as Jenkins is quite shitty with FreeBSD. AV works like a charm. It listens to our repo, fires build event every PR gets accepted and writes both logs and current master to disk.
@SGaist QtFS is our own-made effort to create FS for being exclusively used by Qt* projects.....
@JonB Yes I know pros and cons of ZFS; BTW when you install FreeBSD, it uses ZFS by defualt.

SGaist

By FS, do you mean file system ?

devs4p

@JonB close.... File Storage. Dedicated to Qt, meaning isolated (physically) another set of SSDs in different room having absolutely no direct connection with the rest of infrastructure. With only one user having Write Access (rest of the users have READ (and throttled down to 2MB/s + 2GB/24hrs) access only).