[Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 29/10/15 13:38, Peter Simons wrote:

> Multiplying the average store path size by the number of distinct store paths
> tells us that storing *everything* requires approx. 360 GByte per platform.
> With 3 active platforms, we'd need about 1 TByte of disk space for one complete
> set of Haskell packages.

Do you have data on how well those packages compress? Cache.nixos.org uses xz
compression, so if hydra-queue-runner compressed build results before uploading
to S3, it would presumably need a lot less than 1 TB.

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