From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon May 7 18: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D1237B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4810VO16121; Tue, 8 May 2001 11:00:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:00:32 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Dan Langille Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dan Langille wrote: > By snapshots, are we only referring to Alpha snapshots? If so, please > ignore the rest of my message. > > I know that the i386 snapshots are very useful. Rather than install > -release, you can install a snapshot and avoid the cvsup, build world, > etc. That capabaility is very useful for newbies. i guess i was referring to both. IMHO newbies tend to stay with releases rather than install snapshots (even for i386). perhaps what would be useful here is a post of dir.sizes limited to perhaps 3 levels (?). or are people getting tired of discussing this ? personally i'm finding it good to get a feel for what other mirror admins out there want to / can actually carry. yes, 50G+ is unmaintainable for us with the current layout - it might not be with some structural and mirror friendly changes (ftp master was a good first step). while i like to think of a 10-15G freebsd archive, i simply can't see it happening, when just packages-4.3-release for i386 is 4G. it doesn't seem plausible to have less than 30G in the archive now, and over 12 months it can only grow more - if some steps are taken now to realise that the disk growth is going to happen it might be possible to deal with it in a sane manner. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message