Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:26:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Food for thought Message-ID: <199609031626.LAA14818@Jupiter.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199609031549.JAA26803@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Sep 3, 96 09:49:53 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > CVS tree takes an extra 250M of hard disk. That's still $50 worth of > hard disk, but you have to buy it in $200-$300 chunks, which can be > hard for people. Or run the risk of the used market... > > That said, I recently bought more disk (a Jaz drive), and have been > very happy with CTM of CVS. I've not had any make worlds fail since > I've moved over to that which weren't the result of disk full > failures. > > If you are going to play the -current game, you need at least 2.0G of > disk available. 700M for CVS + source + obj and 1.3 to do your real > work on :-) IMHO, of course. > > One thing I really *LIKE* about OpenBSD's anoncvs is that you can grab > a *SUBSET* of the tree and not have to pay the price of having both > the CVS tree and the whole source tree online. If someone were really > upset about the current build situation, purhaps their energies might > be better spent setting up an experimental anoncvs server fed off a > ctm maintained CVS tree so that the FreeBSD community might benefit > from that. > > Just some random thoughts... > > Warner A full build tree for FreeBSD + the Ports collection requires approximately 8G of space, including the working set of files and enough room for a "make release". If you're building systems which you wish to be able to distribute files for (ie: you have a custom environment and want local repositories for all of it) this is what you need as of today. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199609031626.LAA14818>