Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: "R. Cameron Nicholson" <rcnichol@××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Cc: sysadmin@××××××××.edu
Subject: RE: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:26:54
Message-Id: 005301c6ff19$58bceec0$7701a8c0@athena
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Kojima
1 We've got plenty of disk space over here. (mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo)
2
3 R.Cameron Nicholson
4 Systems Administrator
5 Computer Science Dept., Western Michigan University
6
7 -----Original Message-----
8 From: Kojima [mailto:mirror@×××××××××.jp]
9 Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:07 AM
10 To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
11 Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
12
13 no problem on miror.gentoo.gr.jp
14
15 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:56:37 -0700 (PDT)
16 "Jeffrey Forman" <jforman@g.o> wrote:
17
18 > Hey Guys,
19 >
20 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
21 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
22 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
23 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
24 >
25 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
26 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
27 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
28 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
29 >
30 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
31 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
32 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
33 >
34 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
35 > us to handle new projects.
36 >
37 > Regards,
38 > Jeffrey
39 >
40 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
41 >
42 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
43 >
44 > --
45 > gentoo-mirrors@g.o mailing list
46 >
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