From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 10:21: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AAB37BE08 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA91182; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:20:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003301820.NAA91182@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000330171143.A48758@skriver.dk> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:20:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Jesper Skriver Subject: Re: Mirror requirements Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Lloyd Rennie , Patrick Gardella Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Mar-00 Jesper Skriver wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:42AM -0500, Patrick Gardella wrote: >> Lloyd Rennie wrote: >> > >> > I sent this to -questions, but have received no reply. Sorry to bug >> > y'all, but... >> > >> > What are the hardware and bandwidth requirements to maintain a full >> > FreeBSD mirror site? >> >> Having asked this before, I can try to answer it... >> >> Hardware: Disk space to hold the parts you want to mirror. Are you >> looking to be just an FTP mirror, a WWW mirror (about 8 megs), a CVSUP >> mirror, or some combination of all of these? I would say that a safe >> bet would be an 8 gig HD for all of them. > > I keep a partial ftp mirror, and it barely fits 20 GB ... I was about to say. On ftp3.FreeBSD.org we use 3 9 Gb SCSI disks in a vinum stripe to hold just XFree86 and a partial mirror of FreeBSD and it runs at about 86% capacity. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message