Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:17:01 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Breakdown of FreeBSD content? Message-ID: <v04220829b68104706da9@[172.17.1.121]>
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Folks, I'm in the final stages of setting up a new (rebuilt) anonymous ftp server (yes, it's running FreeBSD), and once this process is complete I'll have the old ftp server that we can re-use for other purposes -- ones that my co-workers and I are more likely to care about for our own reasons, such as setting up mirrors of Unix-related sites. I'm trying to get an idea of how much disk space it would take to set up a mirror of FreeBSD, but broken down on a per-platform/per-version basis, so that I can get a better idea of how much I can cut things down by skipping some of the older versions, skipping platforms we don't care so much about, etc.... I spoke with David Greenman about this issue, and he was able to tell me that the full FreeBSD site weighs in around 50GB right now (although my calculations on the ls-lR from ftp.freesoftware.com indicates it should be more like 63GB), but he is unfortunately so busy that he's not able to provide me any more detail than this. Has anyone else on this mailing list looked at this issue recently? Does anyone here run a mirror of a reduced portion of the FreeBSD site (e.g., x86-only, 4.0-RELEASE and above) and can give me some real-world statistics based on your site? Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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