Thread: source mirrors

source mirrors

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
Hello,

It seems to me that we are mirroring a minimum of twice as much data as
we need to:

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp      11775183 Oct 30 20:54
postgresql-8.1.15.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp            67 Oct 30 20:55
postgresql-8.1.15.tar.bz2.md5
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp      14675054 Oct 30 20:54
postgresql-8.1.15.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp            66 Oct 30 20:54
postgresql-8.1.15.tar.gz.md5

I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz. 

Joshua D. Drake


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Re: source mirrors

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.

Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.


Re: source mirrors

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
> 
> Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.

*shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
waste of space for our mirrors.

Joshua D. Drake


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Re: source mirrors

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
> > 
> > Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.
> 
> *shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
> going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
> waste of space for our mirrors.

Did anyone complain?

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Re: source mirrors

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 17:58 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
> > > 
> > > Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.
> > 
> > *shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
> > going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
> > waste of space for our mirrors.
> 
> Did anyone complain?

No but we have turned away mirroring things in the past due to space.
Granted it was "a lot" of space (vmware images). 

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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Re: source mirrors

From
dpage@pgadmin.org
Date:
On 1/20/09, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 17:58 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > > > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
>> > >
>> > > Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.
>> >
>> > *shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
>> > going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
>> > waste of space for our mirrors.
>>
>> Did anyone complain?
>
> No but we have turned away mirroring things in the past due to space.
> Granted it was "a lot" of space (vmware images).

Which we rejected not for their storage requirements, but because they
are very large files which would have a non-trivial bandwidth hit when
~90 mirrors rsync a new 740MB image within a few hours of each other.

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