Re: source mirrors

On 1/20/09, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 17:58 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > > > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
>> > >
>> > > Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.
>> >
>> > *shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
>> > going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
>> > waste of space for our mirrors.
>>
>> Did anyone complain?
>
> No but we have turned away mirroring things in the past due to space.
> Granted it was "a lot" of space (vmware images).

Which we rejected not for their storage requirements, but because they
are very large files which would have a non-trivial bandwidth hit when
~90 mirrors rsync a new 740MB image within a few hours of each other.

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Dave Page
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