From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12520 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2004 01:14:19 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Apr 2004 01:14:19 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BIdeT-0004qC-Cc for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:14:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 25714 invoked by uid 50004); 28 Apr 2004 01:14:16 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14755 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2004 01:14:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1083114308.1725.22.camel@mirage> References: <1083114308.1725.22.camel@mirage> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <5CF777A8-98B1-11D8-9BBE-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gentoo-infrastructure@lists.gentoo.org, Pieter Van den Abeele From: Pieter Van den Abeele Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:14:14 +0200 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives X-Archives-Salt: 6ce1e4d7-0f1a-45a0-9854-f3fec2385bc1 X-Archives-Hash: 21a0a16586ab35c5ead9f9e7360591b3 Hi, I no longer have all the release I have ever built on cd. I would like to get a copy of the historic ppc stuff before it gets thrown away. Is that possible? Pieter On 28 Apr 2004, at 03:05, Lance Albertson wrote: > Hey all, > > I just got to thinking and realized we need to decide how far back we > want to keep releases on mirrors. Since we're planning on doing 4 > releases per year, its going to get big really fast. I did some > checking > around, and our current historical directory is 12GB in size... below > shows how big each arch has. This includes 1.4 releases plus some 1.2 > releases. > > 12G /space/historical > > 4.5G ./ppc > 6.0G ./x86 > 1.4G ./sparc > > Each 2004.x release is going to be rather large too. Below has some > sizes for the archs we have for 2004.{0-1}. > > x86 sparc > 5.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0 > 4.5G ./2004.1 2.4G ./2004.1 > > ppc amd64 > 3.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0 > 2.9G ./2004.1 1.3G ./2004.1 > > Of course, we can keep whatever we want on our master server, but what > I'm concerned about is space concerns for our mirror admins. Some have > a > huge amount of free space, while others only have limited space. > > How far back should we keep archives to the public? I suppose we could > setup a single server or two to keep all the archives for public, but > for the rest of the mirrors, we should only have so many releases on > there. I'm not sure what the magic number should be. I'm not sure what > kind of a demand we have for our historical releases, I would assume > something probably low. If its not bad, our infra might be able to > support older archives in the long run (don't shoot me kurt). > > What are your takes on this issue? I think once we decide, zhen should > put this in his releng documentation so we have it on digital paper. > > P.S. - Sorry you can't view the historical archives at this moment, > jforman sent an email about an hour ago stating whats up with that. > Blame kurt for it :) > > Thanks! > > -- > Lance Albertson > Gentoo Infrastructure > > --- > GPG Public Key: > Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 > > ramereth/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list