Hi all
I am following the
https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-vagrant-images/-/merge_requests/11
and wanted to remark something that did not come to my mind earlier.
If the build you're using inside the Vagrant box needed need so much
room in the filsystem, what about doing this build inside the /vagrant
synced directory which is shared with the host ?
(https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders)
THis way you're only limited by the disk space of the host.
When using NFS, and providing you don't do fsyncs write (I doubt the
builds tools are doing fsync) you get nearly host system performance.
I just verified that with fio.
When doing a mount over NFS you need root permission at the initial
creation of the box to create the NFS export to the guest in /etc/exports.
vagrant will create and manage an entry like this:
# VAGRANT-BEGIN: 1000 9a45b17b-a2b0-4d05-852d-8e5cf1709068
"/home/manu/Projects/vagrenvs/kuberdebian"
192.168.121.91(rw,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,fsid=4201683301)
# VAGRANT-END: 1000 9a45b17b-a2b0-4d05-852d-8e5cf1709068
but you only need this root permission *at box creation* and not for
further start/stop.
What do you think ? Any reason not to use the shared /vagrant directory
for your builds ?
