Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Wed, 20 Nov: > (forwarding you this automated message) > > According to a diff between the last two files in ~mirror/snapshots, it > seems like the kernel mirror keeps growing, with all the patches and > snapshots of 2.5 addeed it's already on 9.4G (keep in mind we exclude > .bz2).
imagine that... new kernels? wow... > What do we do? (I'll keep having those annoying messages every few > hours until we do something to get /storage above 1GB :) well, since we're no longer a full official mirror anyway, how about getting rid of old kernels? leave 2.2.20, none of the 2.3, get rid of the 2.4 up to 2.4.18, leave only the last 3 2.5, and get rid of a lot of old irrelevant per-patches, ac patches, etc. the big problem is keeping the mirrors from reconstructing all that again and again, one needs to keep updating the exclusion patters on the mirror scripts, and that plain sucks. say, what is our policy on mirroring Israeli Free Software? a friend of mine needs a reliable mirror for his project: http://xparam.sf.net -- A full body workout Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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