Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:00:32 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0105081054150.7520-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105081246320.82333-100000@lists.unixathome.org>
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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
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