Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: Peter Corbett <pwcorbet@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Cc: infrastructure@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:08:22
Message-Id: 4532CD53.1050007@mtu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by "Tomáš Kindl"
1 Hi.
2
3 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
4 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
5 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
6 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
7 >
8 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
9 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
10 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
11 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
12 >
13 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
14 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
15 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
16
17 No problem for lug.mtu.edu.
18
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