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