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From: Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Adding large files to the mirrors?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:52:39
Message-Id: 525F18A9.8050407@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Adding large files to the mirrors? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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6 On 16/10/13 12:01, Duncan wrote:
7 > If it's a core requirement, no problem. But the further from core
8 > requirement it gets the more sensitive infra seems to be about
9 > non- trivial space requirements, and any way you look at it, 30
10 > gigs of rainbow tables are both non-core and non-trivial,
11 > especially with the split package and no-mirror on the big package
12 > solution, so...
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14 No, that's fine. I wanted to check, because I don't take the
15 resources for granted, but I do see us as providing a mirroring
16 service for open source projects (to a degree), and no one so far had
17 put forward an opinion about how infra would feel about it.
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19 Anyway, Francesco made an excellent point, and I think I'll be going
20 with the additional bash script for grabbing the large tables...
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22 Thanks for you help everyone! 5:)
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24 Mike 5:)
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