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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:42:18PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> yep, nwn, it was a beast to d/l myself. |
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> is the correct answer to this putting RESTRICT=nomirror ? i thought that was |
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> client side only ... it hadnt occured to me that it would affect how the |
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> gentoo distfile mirrors would be created ... |
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> if that is so i'll add RESTRICT=nomirror to a bunch of games ... many are a |
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> few hundred megs (mostly q3 mods) ... |
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We're actually in the process of working out a policy to address these |
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issues. The current *suggested* proposal is the following: |
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Per-file size limit: |
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commercial products > 100MB |
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non-commercial products > 500MB |
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The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have |
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resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading |
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experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves |
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without impacting our user base to a significant degree. non-commercial |
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products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would |
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continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently, |
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there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by |
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this cap limit) |
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Thoughts? |
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--kurt |
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