[mirror-admin] Breaking the 1TB limit?

[Jess Cannata]

On 02/22/2010 02:08 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 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?
>
>    
We could easily dedicate 2 TB to Fedora.

Jess

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