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From: "Szabó Zsombor" <zsombor@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:16:44
Message-Id: 45328901.1010501@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 Also ok for ftp.nyx.hu
2
3 Greets,
4 szzs
5
6 Jeffrey Forman wrote:
7 > Hey Guys,
8 >
9 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
10 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
11 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
12 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
13 >
14 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
15 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
16 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
17 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
18 >
19 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
20 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
21 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
22 >
23 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
24 > us to handle new projects.
25 >
26 > Regards,
27 > Jeffrey
28 >
29 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
30 >
31 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
32 >
33 >
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