On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:34 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > resources.org was one attempt to do this to reduce load on CVS and
SVN
> > servers. The tricky bit is managing the tarballs so you don't run
out of
> > disk space!
>
> How much disk space are we talking about? If it's something
reasonable
> (say, 1 TB or less), I can probably talk CELF into hosting it.
Depends on how much you want to keep. The metadata repository has a
number of floating sources that will be re-downloaded every day, so in
that respect there is no limit. Those are mostly the cvs/svn/whatever
snapshots, but if you throw them out you'll probably stay below 20-30gig
for quite a while.
When I ran out of room initially, it was because there was about 110gig
of floating builds that were adding up and I had no convenient way of
figuring out how long to keep them for or even to tell which ones were
floating. I eventually just dumped a directory listing into a file and
spent a week sorting through the list by hand to make a list of what I
wanted to keep. This left me with about 5 gig of source on hand for
several months of archiving stuff.
If you toss in the CVS stuff you're going to be adding significantly
more source, but the upper bound is going to be wherever you decide you
want it to be. The 100 gig of stuff I had was the result of a few months
of archiving. I personally think one or two weeks at the most seems like
a fair amount of time to keep a daily source pull around for someone who
wanted to try recreating a recent day's tree.
If CELF has the resources to do this, it would be a great service for
the community. The network oesources.org is on has been becoming
overcrowded lately so moving the source would probably improve
performance for users. I haven't really been keeping track of the amount
of traffic the source is generating right now, but I could try to set
something up if it's information you guys would need to decide if it's
something you want to pursue.
Greg
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