[mirror-admin] IITM mirror still not on list..

[Prof. P. Sriram]

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:
> I believe the mirror has a space constraint; it can keep one OS
> release, plus updates for a few more.

this is partly true. we actually have public access available to 'current'
releases as defined by fedora (currently 7 on), but only the os and
updates (and not the everything tree). due to space constraints, older
releases and updates are available only for local users. correct me if i
am wrong, but i fail to see any logic in carrying multiple copies of all
packages - once in the dvd image (and once more in the cd image if one
carries that), once in the fedora/os directory and once more in the
everything/os directory. there must be a saner way to do this? i know the
mirror docs say hardlinks, but the only hardlinks i see seem to be in arch
independant files. i know i can use hardlink++ at my end to attack this,
but isn't this better done at the master server end? even better, cant the 
directory structure be slightly modified so that if dvd images are hosted, 
they can be mounted somewhere and the packages on the dvd would not have 
to be duplicated? maybe, a small tweak to the mirroring logic can used to 
do this ... a dvd image of 4 gb may not sound like much, but when we have 
n releases and 4 copies, we add up quickly. as per the 'official' dump 
(at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt), fedora 
takes about 850g and that is approximately the total space at my disposal 
for the mirror (and i have to allocate that between fedora and all that 
other stuff that we mirror). hence my 'insane' attempts to limit size by 
selectively cutting out content.

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sriram
ftp.iitm.ac.in mirror admin

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