Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:13:28 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <00042505132800.02416@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <200004250349.XAA37420@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> <00042422091401.16303@nomad.dataplex.net> <200004250349.XAA37420@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:09:14 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> said: > > You confuse the argument for SOME complete repositories with > > the necessity that ALL (or at each most) repositories be so extensive. > > You're welcome to remove whatever history you like from your personal > copy. Not if I want to keep the recent history up to date. The distribution tools don't support that. > It's not worth the effort to the project as a whole to save a > small amount of disk space. > > The CVS tree is currently 843 Mbytes, complete. Storage cost (even if > you buy SCSI disks) is about $16. With cheap disks, that's about $6. However, you are ignoring the cost of repeatedly (re)processing that (non)information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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