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On July 24, 2003 12:35 am, Håvard Wall wrote: |
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> There has been some discussion lately about how to reduce disk usage |
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> on mirrors. Some programs (typically games) takes a lot of space and |
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> must be stored in the portage-tree due to lack of good host-sites on |
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> their own. |
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> How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? |
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> Users could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or |
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> whatever would benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep |
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> huge (gaming-)files on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host |
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> is down, there would probably already be some users online which have |
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> a copy and is sharing it. |
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> Ok, I guess this might be a rather stupid proposal. I don't expect |
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> any supportive comments. Just had to get it off my chest -) Flames |
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> are nevertheless welcome. |
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I am actively working on this now. |
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