Kevin Lyda wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 17:52, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now, the BW for the book is 100-150 GB/month. Â That includes
>> mailing lists, etc.
>>
>> The BW for the files on anduin are 1-2 TB/month. Â I don't know about the
>> other mirrors.
>
> Wow! That's a lot. It would be interesting to know how often
> multiple LFS versions are downloaded.
That's because some places download everything, including symlinks. For
example:
$ ls -lh /srv/ftp/LFS/lfs-packages/
total 2.4G
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 2 2005 6.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 2 2005 6.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 26 2005 6.1.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 4 2009 6.2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 29 2007 6.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 18 2009 6.4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 7 2010 6.6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 5 2010 6.6-rc1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 21 23:04 6.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 620 Sep 17 16:46 MD5SUMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 708 Sep 17 16:47 SHA1SUMS
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 21 2006 conglomeration ->
../conglomeration
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134M Oct 2 2005 lfs-packages-6.0.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148M Nov 26 2005 lfs-packages-6.1.1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146M Oct 13 2005 lfs-packages-6.1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182M Aug 24 2006 lfs-packages-6.2.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198M Aug 30 2007 lfs-packages-6.3.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248M Jan 4 2009 lfs-packages-6.4.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261M Feb 6 2010 lfs-packages-6.6-rc1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261M Jun 7 2010 lfs-packages-6.6.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282M Sep 19 2010 lfs-packages-6.7.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287M Apr 21 23:05 lfs-packages-6.8.tar
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 17 02:27 lfs-packages-svn-20110904
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308M Sep 17 16:44 lfs-packages-svn-20110904.tar
$ ls -lh /srv/ftp/LFS/conglomeration/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26K Jul 12 2008 conglomeration/MD5SUMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30K Jul 12 2008 conglomeration/SHA1SUMS
conglomeration/autoconf:
total 4.2M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 904K Oct 2 2005 autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1019K Nov 17 2006 autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Apr 8 2008 autoconf-2.62.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M Sep 10 2008 autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2
...
I've seen where one site downloads *all* of the {,b}lfs-packages *and*
all the files in {,b}lfs-packages/conglomeration *and* conglomeration.
In other words, multiple copies of the same packages.
Add the BLFS packages and that's a lot of bandwidth. I don't know how
to block this type of stupid mass download without blocking legitimate
users.
---------
Overall, I do not think git is the right place for packages. The
developers don't need the packages in the repository and we want the
users to be able to download the book and packages with http or ftp or
wget without having to have a version control package on their system.
-- Bruce
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