Verification Builds and Snapshots For Debian

[Chris Lamb]

Dear Vagrant,

> In the meantime, I worked on a naive implementation of this, using
> debmirror and btrfs snapshots (zfs or xfs are other likely candidates
> for filesystem-level snapshots). It is working better than I expected!
[…]
> Currently weighing in at about 550GB, each snapshot of the archive for
> amd64+all+source is weighing in under 330GB if I recall correctly... so
> that is over a month worth of snapshots for the cost of about two full
> snapshots. Obviously, adding more architectures would dramatically
> increase the space used (Would probably add arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el
> and riscv64 if I were to do this again).

This sounds like great progress. :)  Do you have any updates since you
posted your message?

(Are you snapshotting after each dinstall and labelling them with some
timestamp…? Or perhaps you have some other, cleverer, scheme?)


Best wishes,

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