From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon May 7 15:18:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDB537B42C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f47MG8604257; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Ken Smith Cc: Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master In-Reply-To: <200105072208.SAA16585@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Disclaimer: I don't run a FreeBSD mirror. With corporate 'right-sizing' (I hate that term), my aspirations of running a mirror got shot when our bw was cut. Ah well. On Mon, 7 May 2001, Ken Smith wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 17:51:53 2001 > > > > I simply think it's inconvenient for mirror operators to host bits that > > are not obtained even one-tenth of 1% of the time as the newest > > releases/packages. Not everyone has 50GB of disk space to dedicate > > to FreeBSD, and I don't see a reason to expect that. :) > > > > There is another advantage as well. Even if I've got 50Gb of disk > space to contribute to the cause I can set up mirroring of the primary > tree every night and the [painful] archive section weekly if there is > a clean separation between the two. I think this is the best solution. I like the idea of a front-line, this is where we get the latest and greatest set of servers. Then we could make something like archive.freebsd.org that would be much lower bandwidth that mirrors the /pub/FreeBSD-archive set. The advantage is most people will want to use the front-line ftp.freebsd.org. And for that you need about 10-15GB of fast disks while the archive would need probably about 50GB, but could use much slower disk since it won't be in such high demand. Thoughts? -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message