Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mirrors

From: Gregory Staggel <gstag@××××××.gr>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:06:09
Message-Id: 1160982329.2025.1.camel@merlin.admin.dc.hol.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 no prob on files.gentoo.gr neither
2
3 On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 08:56 -0700, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
4
5 > Hey Guys,
6 >
7 > We (Gentoo) is coming out with a new project, called seeds [1] that
8 > provide 'out of the tarball' installs for certain functions (like a LAMP
9 > or mythtv) server. Thing is, the project has requested about 5GB of space
10 > on our mirrors to push out their wares.
11 >
12 > Do any of you guys who run distfile mirrors have any problem handling 5GB
13 > of more data? I will be cleaning out the old releases in the next week or
14 > so since Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been out for several weeks, which should
15 > provide breathing room for those who do not mirror historical.
16 >
17 > Just shoot an email out (reply to all please, so infrastructure people get
18 > a glimpse of how you all feel) about if you can handle it, or if 5GB would
19 > be the straw that broke the camel's back.
20 >
21 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
22 > us to handle new projects.
23 >
24 > Regards,
25 > Jeffrey
26 >
27 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
28 >
29 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
30 >
31
32 --
33 Gregory
34
35 * Computers are like air-conditioners:
36 both stop working, if you open windows.

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