Hi Ilya,
First of all: thanks for the concern and all the work you've done with
the mirrors!
Second, I'd like to tell everybody that I'm afraid I can't carry on
being the mirror admin for IGLU, because of dire time limitations. (I
barely succeed in scratching enough time for fwadmin.) Someone else
will need to step up and take it from me. There's a fairly good setup
there that's easy to manage. The lucky winner will get the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] alias redirected to his e-mail, and he'll have to
suscribe to the redhat-mirror list.
> Something tells me hunting down things we could erase to gain some more
> megabytes for a limited time isn't a good strategy.
It definitely isn't in the long run, simply because of management
burden -- and that's what most people just don't realize when they say
"delete this old file and that old file". It means maintaining rsync
exclude lists, updating them with the ever changing mirrors, and
making sure that they don't exclude anything that shouldn't be
excluded.
(For instance, I think that the problems we've been having with the
Debian mirror are due to exclude lists. Simply because there isn't
anything else to cause it. (Some files are just not downloaded.) I
haven't been able to solve it; this would be one of the missions of
the new mirror admin.)
In my opinion, the *only* way is to enlarge the disk space, and I've
proposed that a couple of times. Unfortunately, due to the
aforementioned time restrictions it would have to be somebody else
next time.
> We should decide once and for all what we mirror and what are our
> priorities, make up a table of sites we officially mirror (and to what
> extent), create some estimates of how fast those mirrors are going to
> grow, and limit ourselves at hosting things. We should create different
> users for the main mirrors and apply disk quotas.
>
> Also, it might be that a Mandrake / SuSE / Slackware mirror with such
> tight exclude rules just isn't much of a mirror anymore, and we should
> just help the community (esp. Israeli ADSL users) and host ISOs or
> whatever is popular.
Perhaps that's a good idea. I say, either enlarge the diskspace, or
host ISOs. (I would still vow for a Debian mirror, simply because so
many people keep updated to unstable / testing and thus use it all the
time, but it's not up to me now.)
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