[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[chag]

Hello,

Today, you can find 1To SATA hard disks around 60€ (vat included). I 
shouldn't be to hard to have too I guess.if there's 100persons on this 
list, each gives 1.5€ and you are done with the 2x1To hard disks in RAID.

Chag

Le 01/10/2010 03:32, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I did started to contact some people to find Tier1 mirrors. One question
> come immediatelly: what will be the size of our mirror tree ?
>
> To have an idea I checked the mirror of the current Mandriva cooker and
> the result make me afraid.
>
> The current cooker tree (RPMS + installer only) is 88GB (SRPMS + i586 +
> x86_64). If I add 3 DVD iso (4GB each) I get around 100GB.
>
> This mean at the begining our mirror will be ~80 GB and in 3 years (1
> release every 6 months) our tree size will be around 700GB !
>
> 700GB is an huge size. I know anyone can buy a 1 TB hard drive for a
> small price, however this is not the way it works in real datacenter
> where people take care to the safety of data (RAID1 is two disk). And
> we have to think to future: what will be the size in 6 years ?
>
> The current full Mandriva mirror is more than 1,2 TB.
>
> So an immediate question come: should we try to reduce the size ?
>
> There are solutions, but they implies changes in our development
> process and have counter parts:
> - using hardlink between RPM:
>    - can be done for noarch inside a release
>    - no resiging packages from cooker to stable at release (rpm changes,
>      any possible hardlink get broken)
> - do not push -debug: will bother others developers
> - removing old distro (having another tree for old): this usualy
>    bother people having old distribution still working on some
>    computers, 3 years is not a so long timelife
>
> So:
> - is this kind of size an issue ?
> - do we have to reduce it ?
> - do you have comments/idea about this state ?
>
> Regards.
>
>    

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