Hey, I'm still alive :)That is great news.
IGLU current status: 1.8G free. This is what I consider a safe boundary. I don't want to go any lower than this, to be ready for any surprise grows in mirroring requirements.I changed IGLU to mirror from hamakor. I saw no point in having both of them spend actcom's intl. bandwidth for the same purpose. I also updated debian about the change, so that their mirror page shows hamakor, rather than iglu.
* kernel.org --> all, no .bz2's (official mirror) * cpan --> all (official mirror) * ldp --> all (official mirror) * debian --> all versions, i386 and no-arch only * debian-non-US --> all versions, i386 and no-arch only * mandrake --> updates for 8.0 and higher, MDK9 ISOs synced manually * kde --> latest version only, manual update (should we keep it at all?) * redhat --> 8.0; i386 only * redhat-updates --> 7.3, 8.*, 9.*; i386 only * loki --> all
Questions:
- Hamakor provides a more complete mirror of Debian. Since we already mirror ours from Hamakor, I will remove IGLU's Debian mirror unless anyone objects.
The reason I did not delete Debian from IGLU so far was the harware problems we have been experiencing on beak. Every time we replace a disk we have to sync the mirrors again (no too great suprise there, I guess). This means that, over the past few weeks, I had to use IGLU as a source at least twice. If you don't mind, I would rather see that beak can stand on it's own for two more days before going ahead and erasing the Debian mirror from there.
If I understand this correctly, the debian mirror takes up more than half the disk space on IGLU.
- What other mirrors will Hamakor take on itself?Oleg vulenteered to take responsibility over this question. He promised me a token show of seriousness, for which I am still waiting. In the mean time, beak is currently mirroring Debian (i386, sparc, ppc and alpha), gentoo (everything), and mandrake (perhaps too much of it). We are in the process of turning it into an official gentoo mirror (they have trial periods, and a mirror server that synchs WAY too slowly).
- What other mirrors Hamakor wishes IGLU to take instead?That's another one of Oleg's alleged responsibilities - make sure things are mirrored at most once per ISP. IGLU needs to be synched not only with beak, but also with mirrors.israel.net (Actcom's mirror server).
- Are there Israeli projects, such as the Kinneret distro, which need mirroring space?I'm asking them this very question tonight. I feel ill at ease, however, to host such things on a linear-raid partition (what beak has for storage). What does IGLU use?
P.S. http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/ leads to Hamakor's main page. Doesn't seem right to me.I totally agree. That is, in fact, what Oleg promised me as a token of seriousness. If anyone else wants to take charge of this project, all they have to do is send me a front page which should be an all israeli free software portal (we can slowly fill in the details regarding what resides where later), and they get ever lasting fame, and the power to decide which Linux users get a local mirror, and which have to go abroad.
Shachar
P.S.
I sent an email to Alex Landsberg of Ligad some time ago about revamping IGLU's hard disks. He has, thus far, not replied to them. Assuming this goes through, however, we may be able to keep a truely significant repository between beak and iglu.
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
