Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors

[Jon Portnoy]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:24:09PM +0200, Rainer Groesslinger wrote:
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> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:03, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:58:51AM -0400 or thereabouts, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > > In the last few months, our distfiles mirror has grown nearly 100% in
> > > terms of space requirements.  Gentoo's increasing popularity also places
> > > greater demands on our mirrors in terms of bandwidth requirements as
> > > well.
> >
> > To follow up to this message, I'm going to be working with avenj to come up
> > wtih a draft policy for changing the way we use our mirrors.  Any developer
> > or source mirror provider who is interested in participating, please drop
> > me an email.
> >
> > --kurt
>
> Perhaps you already thought about this but IMHO part of that policy should be
> that files which are stored on a network with a good mirroring infrastructure
> (sourceforge, kernel.org etc.) are never placed on our distfiles because it
> is very unlikely all 10 mirrors (or how many sourceforge ever has) are down
> and since the gentoo distfile mirrors are used before the
> mirror://sourceforge in the ebuild it causes more traffic to the mirrors
> (plus the space it takes) because nobody really gets it from sourceforge...
>
> I think we could save a lot of bandwidth _and_ space if such files aren't
> placed on the gentoo mirrors if not absolutly neccessary, I don't see a real
> reason why we need to put hundreds of files on the gentoo mirrors which are
> already stored on a very good mirroring system.
>
> --
> Rainer Groesslinger
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~scandium/


The idea is that if files move or go missing, users won't get hit with 
404s (and you'd be surprised as how often they move or go missing, 
too...)

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Jon Portnoy
avenj/irc.freenode.net

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