[p4] Large ISO files

[Neil Carson]

We have a similar problem. An engineering group needed to store large
binary files, including use of change history and versioning.

We wrote some triggers which forced binary depot files above a certain
size to be stored on an external filer, rather than on the perforce
server itself. Since that filer is heavily loaded, it naturally
regulated the network usage on the perforce server when downloading such
files :) and didn't fill the local disc or saturate I/O.

	Neil 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Helck, Christopher
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:24 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Large ISO files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our engineering group wants to start using Perforce. They 
> would like to store ISO cdrom images in Perforce. My gut 
> feeling is that this is a bad idea. The files are large and 
> are unlikely to change. I would think that some other form of 
> permanent storage would be more apporpriate. How do other 
> people handle this type of situation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christopher Helck