On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:37AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Diskspace *is* a problem for mirrors, as is bandwidth in many countries. > > Also, you should think about this issue not just in the context of the > > single package you are interested in but as a general policy. > > Honnestly, no, this is not true anymore nowadays. With a 500Gb sata > hard drive, you're able to have a full debian mirror (all archs). Such a > disk is around 100€ nowadays.
... but it will break down in three months with the typical usage pattern of a public Debian mirror. A typical 300GB server-class hotpluggable SATA or SAS disk is quite a bit more expensive than a typical desktop-class 500GB hard disk, and for a RAID setup that will actually survive the breakdown of a number of moving parts parts, you'll need at least four or five of them. Disk space is *not* cheap, and using it as an argument to add more packages to the archive is stupid. Additionally, network bandwidth isn't cheap, either, and the update of a number of 400MB packages might disrupt the (twice-daily) mirror pulse. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
