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From: Avdija Ahmedhodzic <avdija@××××××××××.ba>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:32:06
Message-Id: f58fafea0611030031w6ca3432ahc53a003465f18f94@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 On 10/14/06, Jeffrey Forman <jforman@g.o> wrote:
2 > Hey Guys,
3 >
4 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
5 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
6 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
7 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
8 >
9 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
10 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
11 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
12 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
13 >
14 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
15 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
16 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
17 >
18 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
19 > us to handle new projects.
20 >
21 > Regards,
22 > Jeffrey
23 >
24 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
25 >
26 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
27
28 No problem here mirror.bih.net.ba
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