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From: "Rasmus Brøgger" <rasmus.brogger@×××××.dk>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:43:47
Message-Id: 1846.86.52.56.172.1160862199.squirrel@webmail.uni-c.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] can distfile mirrors spare about 5GB? by Jeffrey Forman
1 > Hey Guys,
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 > Thanks for the support, Gentoo truly appreciates the work you do allowing
18 > us to handle new projects.
19 >
20 > Regards,
21 > Jeffrey
22 >
23 > Gentoo Infrastructure Mirror Manager
24 >
25 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/seeds/
26 >
27 > --
28 > gentoo-mirrors@g.o mailing list
29 >
30 >
31
32 No problem at all.
33 mirror.uni-c.dk
34
35 Regards,
36 Rasmus Brogger
37
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