Re: [gentoo-dev] The release of 1.4 and its impact on our mirrors

[Alec Berryman <alec@lorax.wox.org>]

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On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:39, Tal Peer wrote:
> Looking at the numbers you provided, i think we should seperate the 
> mirrors into two groups: Binary and Source. Binary mirrors would provide 
> GRPs and ISOs, and source mirrors will only provide distfiles. Mirrors 
> could provide both, of course.
> 
> In the short term, there won't be too many binary mirrors (freeing almost 
> 17 gigs of free space is tempting), so we should encourage mirrors that 
> are high on diskspace to mirror both source and binary.
> 
> In the long term, this could also rise the numbers of mirrors, as mirror 
> provideres will need to 'waste' less disk space on the gentoo mirror (if 
> they choose to only mirror one type, that is).

Along the line of 'wasting' less disk space is the wasting of less
bandwidth; would this not be a great time to start really pushing
something like deltup (http://deltup.sourceforge.net/glep.html)?

The few times I have used deltup it has worked great; patch availability
is the problem.  If it were kept up to date, it could take quite a load
off the servers.

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