Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.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 16:11:09
Message-Id: 20061014161015.GA144146@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 maillog: 14/10/2006-08:56:37(-0700): Jeffrey Forman types
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 No problem on gg3.net. Bring it on.
19
20 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
21 > us to handle new projects.
22
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Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? Jin-Shan Tseng <tjs@××××××××××××××.tw>
Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? "Tomáš Kindl" <supp@×××××××.cz>