On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:35:48AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > 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.
I vote very much against this. Since the Linux kernel had no source control system until a few months ago, all these old kernels are the source control system. I make use of them, and having them accessible on a fast mirror is very convenient. Did anyone run a 'du' on /storage lately? specifically, on the kernel mirror? > 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 I'd say that's a good idea, but we need good guidelines what to mirror and what not to. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?
