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Hey all, |
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I just got to thinking and realized we need to decide how far back we |
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want to keep releases on mirrors. Since we're planning on doing 4 |
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releases per year, its going to get big really fast. I did some checking |
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around, and our current historical directory is 12GB in size... below |
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shows how big each arch has. This includes 1.4 releases plus some 1.2 |
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releases. |
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12G /space/historical |
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4.5G ./ppc |
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6.0G ./x86 |
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1.4G ./sparc |
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Each 2004.x release is going to be rather large too. Below has some |
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sizes for the archs we have for 2004.{0-1}. |
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x86 sparc |
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5.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0 |
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4.5G ./2004.1 2.4G ./2004.1 |
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ppc amd64 |
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3.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0 |
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2.9G ./2004.1 1.3G ./2004.1 |
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Of course, we can keep whatever we want on our master server, but what |
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I'm concerned about is space concerns for our mirror admins. Some have a |
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huge amount of free space, while others only have limited space. |
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How far back should we keep archives to the public? I suppose we could |
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setup a single server or two to keep all the archives for public, but |
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for the rest of the mirrors, we should only have so many releases on |
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there. I'm not sure what the magic number should be. I'm not sure what |
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kind of a demand we have for our historical releases, I would assume |
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something probably low. If its not bad, our infra might be able to |
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support older archives in the long run (don't shoot me kurt). |
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What are your takes on this issue? I think once we decide, zhen should |
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put this in his releng documentation so we have it on digital paper. |
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P.S. - Sorry you can't view the historical archives at this moment, |
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jforman sent an email about an hour ago stating whats up with that. |
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Blame kurt for it :) |
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Thanks! |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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