Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Don Seiler <rizzo@g.o>
To: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:01:14
Message-Id: 20030723125928.GA13025%don@seiler.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors by Kurt Lieber
1 I agree with your limits and your reasoning.
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3 Don.
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5 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:56:12AM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote:
6 > Per-file size limit:
7 >
8 > commercial products > 100MB
9 > non-commercial products > 500MB
10 >
11 > The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have
12 > resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading
13 > experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves
14 > without impacting our user base to a significant degree. non-commercial
15 > products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would
16 > continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently,
17 > there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by
18 > this cap limit)
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