From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8271 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 14:13:41 -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 11297 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 14:13:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:11:11 -0400 From: Kurt Lieber To: gentoo-mirrors@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030725141108.GI9959@mail.lieber.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-mirrors@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="R9b51G30WkD62Ue3" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Key: http://www.lieber.org/kurtl.pub.gpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: re-organizing our source mirrors into two categories: full and partial X-Archives-Salt: e32a9355-e177-41ce-a9c2-293fcba20975 X-Archives-Hash: fb8ccce2b419f083b3626ae34c15756f --R9b51G30WkD62Ue3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks -- I'd like to propose the following reorg for our mirrors. Right now, all mirrors are required to carry all directories. I'd like to break that into two categories: full mirrors and distfile mirrors. Full mirrors would still be required to carry all directories. Full means full, after all. :) distfile mirrors would be required to carry two directories: /distfiles and /snapshots. /snapshots contains snapshots of the portage tree and is used by emerge-webrsync for folks that are behind restrictive firewalls. Typically, the /snapshot directory is under 250MB. This gives mirrors who are short on disk space an option to still support Gentoo without having to set aside nearly 50GB of space for us. For mirrors who do have enough disk space, they can continue to mirror the full tree. =20 We will of course continue to work at reducing the overall amount of data that we have. However, over time, our space requirements will undoubtedly continue to increase. This proposal is meant as a longer term solution to give mirror admins an option on how best they can support Gentoo in their environment. Also, for the many people who suggested a p2p network as an option, that is certainly something we will consider in the future. That will take planning and coordination, however, as it will likely require changes to portage. In the mean time, our system of FTP and HTTP mirrors will continue to be our primary method of distribution and we still needed a solution to address these mirrors. Your comments and ideas are welcome. =20 --R9b51G30WkD62Ue3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ITp8JPpRNiftIEYRAqWjAKCNXgtF41OINV0QbnDKq2wnDC1EgACfe/ez YJJF3PFO/feBNeHc9tlYXng= =o82J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R9b51G30WkD62Ue3--