[mirror-admin] Breaking the 1TB limit?

[Bjørn Tore Sund]

On 2/22/10 10:04 PM, Jess Cannata wrote:
> 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.

Neither bandwith nor diskspace is going to be an issue for us, we'll 
assign the diskspace we need for the server.

-BT
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