Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: re-organizing our source mirrors into two categories: full and partial

[Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:05:15AM -0500 or thereabouts, bdharring wrote:
> >Distfile mirrors would be required to carry the full /distfiles 
> >directory.
> What space savings are avoided by not carrying the portage tree?  Last 
> I had checked, I believe the tree was roughly in the range of 100mbs or 
> so.

The portage tree is carried on a separate system of mirrors.  We call them
our portage mirrors or rsync mirrors.  Source mirrors carry the tarballs
and ISOs necessary to build things found in the Portage tree, as well as
installation CDs, GRP packages, etc.

This discussion only revolves around source mirrors, which current hold the
following directories:

/releases
/experimental
/snapshots
/distfiles

Under the current proposal, "full" mirrors would carry all four directories
while distfile mirrors would only carry the last two directories.  The
delta between the two in terms of hard drive space required is (roughly)
15GB.

--kurt

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