David Bolt wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:-
I haven't checked, but I would wager that the total storage required for a past release + update + build-service even for x86, x86_64, ppc, etc. isn't more that 25G.
You might want to guess again. I don't mirror PPC packages, only having the one PPC based system, and the present space used by update mirrors are:
davjam@playing:/media/share/suse/i386/update> du --max-depth=1 -h 8.5G ./9.1 11G ./9.3 24G ./10.1 19G ./10.2 15G ./10.3 2.8G ./11.0 4.0K ./11.1 79G .
Shoot, David, looks like I was a bit conservative, but the largest release I see is 10.1 at 24G, I guessed 25G, my calibrated guessing machine missed by less than 5% ;-) Seriously, let's assume then that storage requirements for "a release" (which would include x86, x86_64, and ppc) maxes out at 100G, then on a standard server hard drive of 500G, we should be able to hold all packages for the current plus the past 4 releases. That would at least take us back to 10.0, assuming each release required 100G. However, based on your statistics above, an based upon recollection of the cd's from the 8.0 days, it would appear that many releases could live in 50G or less. I will guess again that Novell/openSuSE has much more spare storage sitting idle than 500G in capacity. Once somebody copied the files and provided the links, then the overhead is done until there is a drive failure. Yes, everyone should upgrade, but for virtually no-cost Novell could benefit the user base and really market the heck out of the fact that updates through end-of-life are available for all its releases. Like I said, just something to consider that seems to be a way Novell could further distinguish itself among other distros while providing benefit to its longtime user base. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org