>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:58:15 -0800
>From: David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>I asked the question in hopes that there would be some neat
>feature of cvsup that mocked up some CVS metadata for me, but
>since nobody has mentioned any such thing, I guess I'm out of
>luck.  Mirroring the entire repository is not an option on
>machines with less than 6 GB of spare disk.[1]...


In the interest of providing empirical data, since this thread is being
archived and someone might see the above and come to the conclusion that
6 GB of space is required for a full mirror of the CVS repository, I
offer:

freebeast(4.7-S)[1] cd /cvs
freebeast(4.7-S)[2] du -ks .
1649982 .
freebeast(4.7-S)[3] cd /usr/src
freebeast(4.7-S)[4] !2
du -ks .
321999  .
freebeast(4.7-S)[5] 


That's  a little over 1.6 GB for the CVS repo itself, plus <350 MB for
the /usr/src working directory.  (I do have a little bit of extra stuff
in the CVS repository for local things, but it isn't significant, and
certainly doesn't change the point, which is that about 2 GB appears to
be adequate at this time.)

>....

>[1] When the system is an aging dual PPro or 200MHz Alpha using
>    SCSI, buying new drives is not practical.

Given the price of hardware, it might be worth considering cobbling up a
separate box for the purpose.  You may have done this, and decided that
it's not worth the cost, or is otherwise inappropriate or ineffective.
That's fine: it's your problem and your resources, so how you choose to
allocate them is (and should be) your decision.  But any solution will
cost some resources.

For me, keeping a local mirror of the CVS repository works well enough
that I'm rather surprised that it isn't done by more folks.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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David H. Wolfskill                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have no confidence in results obtained through the use of Microsoft products.

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