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From: Llarian <llarian@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Cc: infrastructure@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:47:04
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0610141146010.26396@llarian.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 That's pushing it for me at the moment, but with some advance warning I
2 can shuffle things around to make room.
3
4 -D
5
6 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
7
8 > Hey Guys,
9 >
10 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
11 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
12 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
13 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
14 >
15 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
16 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
17 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
18 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
19 >
20 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
21 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
22 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
23 >
24 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
25 > us to handle new projects.
26 >
27 > Regards,
28 > Jeffrey
29 >
30 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
31 >
32 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
33 >
34 >
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