From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19073 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jul 2003 05:52:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30939 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 05:52:05 -0000 From: Fred Van Andel Reply-To: fava@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:50:22 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030723194823.GJ9959@mail.lieber.org> <3F1F8C28.7050807@ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <3F1F8C28.7050807@ifi.uio.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307222250.22263.fava@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors X-Archives-Salt: e5ca48b5-86bb-4482-be73-b23e1ebc3ef1 X-Archives-Hash: 00fbb94c73265c06dd62a0e343445448 On July 24, 2003 12:35 am, H=E5vard Wall wrote: > There has been some discussion lately about how to reduce disk usage > on mirrors. Some programs (typically games) takes a lot of space and > must be stored in the portage-tree due to lack of good host-sites on > their own. > > How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? > Users could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or > whatever would benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep > huge (gaming-)files on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host > is down, there would probably already be some users online which have > a copy and is sharing it. > > Ok, I guess this might be a rather stupid proposal. I don't expect > any supportive comments. Just had to get it off my chest -) Flames > are nevertheless welcome. I am actively working on this now. =2D-=20 =46red Van Andel fava@gentoo.org GPG KeyID: 76526AD599455482 =20 GPG fingerprint: 64E4 4BAB 9C99 D565 3E3C F5D0 7652 6AD5 9945 5482 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list