Re: [gentoo-dev] The release of 1.4 and its impact on our mirrors

[Tal Peer <coredumb@gentoo.org>]

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).

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Tal Peer
Gentoo Developer

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