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From: Nicolas Lopez <nlopez@×××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:16:41
Message-Id: 4533CC4D.6060105@espri.arizona.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 No sweat for mirror.espri.arizona.edu
2
3 - nick
4
5 Jeffrey Forman wrote:
6 > Hey Guys,
7 >
8 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
9 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
10 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
11 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
12 >
13 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
14 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
15 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
16 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
17 >
18 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
19 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
20 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
21 >
22 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
23 > us to handle new projects.
24 >
25 > Regards,
26 > Jeffrey
27 >
28 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
29 >
30 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
31 >
32 >
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