Am 16.11.2010 22:53, schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:31:48 +0100 Stephan Kulow<coolo@novell.com> wrote:
I can poll a file on openqa.opensuse.org and do a factory-tested snapshot when it contains the content of /factory/repo/oss/media.1/build - this is really peanuts.
What's not peanuts: this is several GB more to host and mirror. Not a big
Actually if this is a previously already mirrored out release, this can be done with hardlinking the current state into the snapshot release. Even if is is not 100% the same as the already mirrored state, this would still cut most of the bandwidth.
rsync can also handle hardlinks, so the mirroring should not be that big of a problem.
Of course, over time, when the unstable repo gets changed, on-disk space requirements will rise as the hardlinks will get broken.
I'm not sure if the bandwidth or the disk space is the problem, though.
Factory repos are 14GB total (if you do not count the project+user repos which are not even snapshotted for milestones) and isos use another 3-4GB (not counting 8.5GB of DVDs). Storing 18 GB would not be a problem with disk-space on my server. But bandwidth might be, with enough users. I could dedicate 3 TB/month of bandwidth to this project, which should suffice for a few hundred users - depending on how much Factory gets rebuilt and how much they update. As coolo said, when bandwidth really becomes a problem, this means that this thing is useful which should make it easier to find more mirrors - e.g. those who already find mirroring factory useful. Ciao Bernhard M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org