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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors
  @ 2003-07-23 12:59 99%     ` Don Seiler
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From: Don Seiler @ 2003-07-23 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Kurt Lieber; +Cc: gentoo-dev

I agree with your limits and your reasoning.

Don.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:56:12AM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> Per-file size limit:
> 
> commercial products > 100MB
> non-commercial products > 500MB
> 
> The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have
> resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading
> experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves
> without impacting our user base to a significant degree.  non-commercial
> products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would
> continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently,
> there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by
> this cap limit)

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