Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Derek Cicero wrote: > >> Mike Kupfer wrote: >>>>>>>> "MO" == Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> MO> Well, it is always growing, >>> [...] >>> MO> Right now an extra 5-10MB would probably do the trick. >>> >>> An always-growing tarball will take an always-growing time to download, >>> so I'm wondering if there's a better way to deliver the PDFs. Is the >>> main reason for using a tarball to have a simple mechanism to stay >>> current (rather than downloading individual PDFs by hand)? Or are there >>> other reasons? >>> >>> I'm wondering if it would make more sense to keep the PDFs in a >>> repository. Does Rainer generate new PDFs for all the docs, or just the >>> ones that have changed since last time? If we just update the PDFs when >>> there's an actual change, a simple "hg pull -u" or "svn update" will >>> pull down (only) the new files. >>> >> I have increased the limit to 30 MB. > > 30MB?? Are you serious? Perhaps you meant 30GB! > > Disk space (SATA drives and ZFS) are less expensive than the time people > have spent typing emails discussing it here!
The issue was the per attachment limit. Derek > > Michelle - if you need space of genunix.org, you're welcome to it. The > your URL on opensolaris.org could simply redirect your clients to where > the files are. > >> To Mike's point, that is a pretty big tarball, so you might want to look >> into breaking it up or providing alternative formats. >> >> Derek >>> mike >>> > > Regards, > > Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT > OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
