Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:36:31 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is> Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, <hubs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: need space to upload freebsd/sparc64 SNAPs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211290934100.6363-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20021128231534.GC32331@isnic.is>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > > I need space on one of the freebsd.org mirrors to upload the iso images from > > new -current SNAPs of FreeBSD/sparc64, about once a day. These would go in > > /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64, which if I understand correctly is not > > mirrored as the rest of the files are. A shell is not required, just ftp > > upload permissions to that directory. The isos are temporary and can be > > deleted after a while, it would be nice to be able to keep a week or so > > of them around. > > The /snapshots dir is mirrored on full mirrors and would be cleaned out at the > next sync unless the mirror admin excludes it somehow. it would also be very wasteful to put up images there on a daily basis (650M each ? 1-2G in total?) as that will chew up disk space and bandwidth for mirror sites and from ftp-master's pipe. can snapshot isos be scaled back ? perhaps every fortnight, or even monthly ? regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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