Hi, Ilya!
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:26:53PM +0200, you wrote the following:
> > Aduva is generally willing to donate us the disks. However, we need to
> > put up a general pledge for companies to donate us disks, and then
> > Aduva will be able to respond as one of those companies. I suppose a
> > message to the mailing list would be enough, perhaps with the addition
> > of an article on the IGLU main page.
>
> What we need is a simple specification - the disk size we need!
>
> Marc suggested around 36GB, which sounds fine by me too. We're going to
> use LVM with regular SCSIs, I assume, not RAID.
I was thinking about a few 18 GB disks, because that's the type of
disks that we have now, so we'll be able to use them in RAID in the
future if we have the opportunity. But that doesn't matter very much.
> Aduva is a bit dissatisfied with us not crediting them enough, given the
> amount of support they've provided the community, so I guess I'll dive
> into Zope and find how exactly I can insert a picture and a link
> just like Compaq's and Ligad's. If you have better ideas, feel free to
> offer.
We should definitely do that. Especially if we get disks from them.
> Also, do we really feel good about asking for more diskspace, when a
> significant amount of space could be cleaned by wiping out 1.x kernels,
> old glibc versions etc. - stuff nobody touches (we're here to provide
> the best value for the community, not to preserve the archives
> authenticity) - and by loop-mounting the distro ISOs?
These ideas are great in theory, but in practice are unapplicable
because we don't have the manpower. *I* don't have time, in any case.
If somebody feels he has more time and wants to replace me, please
suggest. But I think that if you check, you'll see that most mirrors
in the world don't do such selective mirroring. Disk space is just
cheaper these days than debugging exclude lists.
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