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]
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Derek Cicero
Program Manager
Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
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