From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Nov 28 15:36:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7FF37B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:36:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4FA43EBE for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gASNaVC7003368; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:36:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:36:31 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Olafur Osvaldsson Cc: Jake Burkholder , Subject: Re: need space to upload freebsd/sparc64 SNAPs In-Reply-To: <20021128231534.GC32331@isnic.is> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -104.4, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > > I need space on one of the freebsd.org mirrors to upload the iso images from > > new -current SNAPs of FreeBSD/sparc64, about once a day. These would go in > > /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64, which if I understand correctly is not > > mirrored as the rest of the files are. A shell is not required, just ftp > > upload permissions to that directory. The isos are temporary and can be > > deleted after a while, it would be nice to be able to keep a week or so > > of them around. > > The /snapshots dir is mirrored on full mirrors and would be cleaned out at the > next sync unless the mirror admin excludes it somehow. it would also be very wasteful to put up images there on a daily basis (650M each ? 1-2G in total?) as that will chew up disk space and bandwidth for mirror sites and from ftp-master's pipe. can snapshot isos be scaled back ? perhaps every fortnight, or even monthly ? regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message