[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 21 octobre 2010 00:47:54, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> * Wolfgang Bornath (molch.b at googlemail.com) wrote:
> > 2010/10/21 Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org>:
> > >
> > > I am not sure our mirror will reach 700MB but sice the current cooker
> > > tree is near of 80Go (w/o iso), and if I take as base 2 release per
> > > year, then I obtain 700GB in three years.
> > 
> > So 350Go would be enough for the current version plus the previous 2
> > versions (including ISOs). Would that be a "valid" mirror?
> 
> If the rules I suggested are applied and at time, yes.
> But be aware the tree will grow release after release.
> 
> I am waiting the release cycle to be defined to know how much space
> we'll need. If we choose to do only one release per year, the 700GB size
> will occur only in 6 years. And if we don't import all rpms for mandriva
> the size need will be less again.

If we choose to do only one release per year, the backports media may grow faster, but indeed probably less rapidly than a whole release tree.

Samuel