[mirror-admin] Breaking the 1TB limit?

[Matt Domsch]

Since the dawn of Fedora, we have, through informal agreement, limited
the amount of content that Fedora provides for mirrors to carry, to
under 1TB.  As obsolete releases expire, they get removed (more or
less), and as new releases are available, they get added, yet we've
managed to stay below 1TB (though sometimes dangerously close to it).

For some content, such as spins, videos, and the like, we have set up
a second set of content, that is not widely mirrored, but is available
should you wish to mirror it.  This is the "alt" content on alt.fp.o.
Likewise, as we migrate obsolete releases from the master mirror, it's
moved to archive.fp.o, and some mirrors also carry that for us.

We have over 9000 packages in the Fedora 13 repository, growing at
over 1000/year.  We have quite a few Fedora Spins that would
appreciate more widespread mirroring of the work they do.

My question for the mirrors: at what point can we increase beyond 1TB?
Is that a meaningful number anymore?

In my mind, the question is two-fold:

1) do many mirrors have more than 1TB they would be willing to use to
host Fedora content?  If so, how many, and how much more?

2) do we have the bandwidth, collectively, to mirror that much more
content?  Due to our use of Tiering, we have done a decent job of
getting content out to our mirrors faster than in the past.  If we are
pushing that much more content, can we handle it?

I welcome your feedback on this.  There is no formal decision being
made, I'm just trying to gauge the abilities of our fantastic mirrors,
without whom we'd be sunk.

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

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