Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-infrastructure@l.g.o, Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:14:19
Message-Id: 5CF777A8-98B1-11D8-9BBE-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives by Lance Albertson
1 Hi,
2
3 I no longer have all the release I have ever built on cd. I would like
4 to get a copy of the historic ppc stuff before it gets thrown away. Is
5 that possible?
6
7 Pieter
8
9 On 28 Apr 2004, at 03:05, Lance Albertson wrote:
10
11 > Hey all,
12 >
13 > I just got to thinking and realized we need to decide how far back we
14 > want to keep releases on mirrors. Since we're planning on doing 4
15 > releases per year, its going to get big really fast. I did some
16 > checking
17 > around, and our current historical directory is 12GB in size... below
18 > shows how big each arch has. This includes 1.4 releases plus some 1.2
19 > releases.
20 >
21 > 12G /space/historical
22 >
23 > 4.5G ./ppc
24 > 6.0G ./x86
25 > 1.4G ./sparc
26 >
27 > Each 2004.x release is going to be rather large too. Below has some
28 > sizes for the archs we have for 2004.{0-1}.
29 >
30 > x86 sparc
31 > 5.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0
32 > 4.5G ./2004.1 2.4G ./2004.1
33 >
34 > ppc amd64
35 > 3.0G ./2004.0 1.2G ./2004.0
36 > 2.9G ./2004.1 1.3G ./2004.1
37 >
38 > Of course, we can keep whatever we want on our master server, but what
39 > I'm concerned about is space concerns for our mirror admins. Some have
40 > a
41 > huge amount of free space, while others only have limited space.
42 >
43 > How far back should we keep archives to the public? I suppose we could
44 > setup a single server or two to keep all the archives for public, but
45 > for the rest of the mirrors, we should only have so many releases on
46 > there. I'm not sure what the magic number should be. I'm not sure what
47 > kind of a demand we have for our historical releases, I would assume
48 > something probably low. If its not bad, our infra might be able to
49 > support older archives in the long run (don't shoot me kurt).
50 >
51 > What are your takes on this issue? I think once we decide, zhen should
52 > put this in his releng documentation so we have it on digital paper.
53 >
54 > P.S. - Sorry you can't view the historical archives at this moment,
55 > jforman sent an email about an hour ago stating whats up with that.
56 > Blame kurt for it :)
57 >
58 > Thanks!
59 >
60 > --
61 > Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
62 > Gentoo Infrastructure
63 >
64 > ---
65 > GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc>
66 > Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742
67 >
68 > ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>