* Re: [gentoo-dev] The release of 1.4 and its impact on our mirrors
@ 2003-07-23 21:10 99% ` Jon Portnoy
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2003-07-23 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Tal Peer; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:39:29PM +0300, Tal Peer wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
>
> > We have already received numerous complaints from our mirror admins about
> > the amount of disk space we chew up now. For reference, here is a break
> > down:
> >
> > 9.7G ./releases
> > 139M ./snapshots
> > 17G ./distfiles
> > 6.6G ./experimental
> >
> > [real-big-snip]
> >
> > Thoughts? Ideas?
> >
>
> 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).
>
I think we should probably start with leaving non-GRP LiveCD ISOs on
"source' mirrors in that case and see how that works for mirror
providers. Otherwise, we may have a lot of frustrated users who can't
find CDs.
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