Re: GNOME hosting

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se> writes:

> On 08 March, 2001 - jacob berkman sent me these 0.8K bytes:
> 
> > On 08 Mar 2001 22:46:03 +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> > > jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > well the bandwitdh and space on all the mirrors is not as cheap for
> > > > everyone.
> > > 
> > > Right about space, wrong about bandwidth. Stuff which nobody downloads
> > > doesn't cost bandwidth.
> > 
> > but starting up a mirror *does* take a large amount of bandwidth.
> 
> Maybe the historical stuff can be kept in a tree next to the current
> stuff.. so you can decide if you want to mirror only the current stuff
> and/or all old packages too.
> 
> Seems like the most sane solution to me.
> 
> Btw, how much disk space does it all take right now?
> 
> /Tomas - not mirroring gnome ftp.. (yet?)

The current /pub is 3.2gig
                                        Owen