On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote:
> 
> > On /mirror/ftp/pub/distributions/RedHat/redhat/linux/, we keep copies
> > of versions 1.0 to 6.2. 
> > 
> > First, 6.2 seems redundant (since there's already
> > /mirror/ftp/pub/distributions/RedHat/redhat/redhat-6.2).
> > 
> > Second, do we really need the rest of it, when the space could better
> > serve to keep the (ever-growing) Debian mirror complete? (okay, so I'm
> > biased :)
> > 
> > If you guys agree with me, I'll add an exclude rule to the 
> > RedHat rsync
> > mirror.
> 
> Are there statistics on how used those mirrors are? 

Just set it up now:
http://www.iglu.org.il/stats/ftp/

(should those things be password-protected?)

> Are they necessary in order to keep the "official mirror" status?

Just contacted RedHat about it (couldn't find it anywhere on their
website).

> If those mirrors are heavily used, than our users shouldn't suffer from the
> fact that we are all Debian users. 

Either we have a Debian mirror (for atleast i386 - which is all we do
now) or we don't - there's no half-a-mirror.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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