[Ilugc] Pruning FreeBSD...
- From: girish1729@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Thu Sep 14 08:33:23 2006
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:03:13PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:45:29PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
However we are concerned about the size of 300GB. Is there a way by
which we can prune certain "unnecesssary" or let me put it this way, less
frequently downloaded stuff?
Depending on how you mirror (rsync, CVSup, etc.), you can craft exclude
clauses to avoid what you want.
You can almost certainly drop the ia64 packages without anyone
noticing, but you should really try to mirror the full i386 and amd64
sets. sparc64 is probably lower use, but still worth mirroring if you
can (at least 6.x and 7.x).
Kris
Dear Sriram,
(I sent an e-mail yday to freebsd-hubs@xxxxxxxxxxx for our problem.
I am attaching the response here.)
Nobody gave me specifics or numbers as you can see, but at least this much
I am able to guess that we can get a lot below the 300 GB number.
I am just curious, are you concerned about the disk space (which is
peanuts these days) or the bandwidth? As CVSup is really efficient once you
download the entire thing. It only patches deltas.
Because though FreeBSD distribution is large the number of ppl downloading
it going to be minuscule compared to linux. So whichever way you look at it I
don't see bandwidth hog an issue here.
Please correct me if I am wrong here.
Anyway I am waiting for you to get back to me on how to proceed.
regards,
Girish
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