[H-GEN] Pacific.net.au FreeBSD mirror
Greg Black
gjb at gbch.net
Fri Nov 2 02:18:54 EDT 2007
On 2007-11-02, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> While trying to figure out why the FreeBSD distributions were not
> updated on the Australian mirrors, the pacific.net.au mirror
> (ftp3.au.freebsd.org) got taken offline:
>
> The FreeBSD directory was deleted this morning, literally an
> hour before your message came in, when our arrays ran out of
> space.
How pathetic. One of the few reasons to stick with them has been the
"free" access to their mirrors.
> But....
>
> I don't have much time to dedicate to this, but if you could
> provide me with a <200GB subset of FreeBSD available from a
> reliable rsync target, we could probably mirror FreeBSD again.
Personally, I can't see the point of them carrying a partial mirror and
I find it more than a little odd that they can't find space to do this
properly.
> Based on the data ofhttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-requirements.html,
> the full repository is about 400 Gb (that is included packages,
> distfiles, snapshots and others).
>
> general:
> CERT 31,690 *
> branches 389,668 *
> development 7,723,476 *
> doc 2,486,522 *
>
> distfiles:
> ports/distfiles 83,603,896 *
> ports/local-distfiles 4,247,132 *
>
> ISOs:
> releases 29,880,336 *
> snapshots 41,272,204
>
> packages:
> ports/amd64 62,582,866
> ports/i386 70,881,696
> ports/ia64 35,418,152
> ports/sparc64 47,143,248
>
> The ones with a * behind it are the important ones (from my point
> of view) and I will tell them that these are the ones they should
> mirror.
>
> If I have made a mistake in my observations, then this is the moment
> to reply to me :-)
I think the only mistake is to consider partial mirrors. It's too much
of a pain dealing with an incomplete mirror, so I guess I don't care
what they carry if they can't be bothered to do it right.
Greg
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