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

[paul <paul@subsignal.org>]

bdharring wrote:
> 
> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Going a bit longer term, I'd wonder about adding a mirror classification 
> that handles just diff's (or whatever format is used).
he he, opened my MUA to ask about that this morning ;) I'd love to see 
portage handle updates as patches to distfiles. Is this feature planned 
in the near future?

paul

> While distfile diff's aren't currently included/existing, I can't help 
> but believe that this feature will be integrated into portage at some 
> point, mainly due to the fact people request it and more importantly, 
> the fact that people are working on this problem.
> Also, are you advocating the distfile mirrors carry a *complete* 
> distfile mirror, or a partial?  I'm curious what the space savings would 
> be...
> ~bdh
> 
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