From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 23:01:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24665 for current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24660 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id LAA25008; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:26:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Tue, 3 Sep 96 11:26 CDT Received: (from karl@localhost) by Jupiter.mcs.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id LAA14818; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:26:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199609031626.LAA14818@Jupiter.mcs.net> Subject: Re: Food for thought To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:26:44 -0500 (CDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199609031549.JAA26803@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 3, 96 09:49:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > CVS tree takes an extra 250M of hard disk. That's still $50 worth of > hard disk, but you have to buy it in $200-$300 chunks, which can be > hard for people. Or run the risk of the used market... > > That said, I recently bought more disk (a Jaz drive), and have been > very happy with CTM of CVS. I've not had any make worlds fail since > I've moved over to that which weren't the result of disk full > failures. > > If you are going to play the -current game, you need at least 2.0G of > disk available. 700M for CVS + source + obj and 1.3 to do your real > work on :-) IMHO, of course. > > One thing I really *LIKE* about OpenBSD's anoncvs is that you can grab > a *SUBSET* of the tree and not have to pay the price of having both > the CVS tree and the whole source tree online. If someone were really > upset about the current build situation, purhaps their energies might > be better spent setting up an experimental anoncvs server fed off a > ctm maintained CVS tree so that the FreeBSD community might benefit > from that. > > Just some random thoughts... > > Warner A full build tree for FreeBSD + the Ports collection requires approximately 8G of space, including the working set of files and enough room for a "make release". If you're building systems which you wish to be able to distribute files for (ie: you have a custom environment and want local repositories for all of it) this is what you need as of today. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!