On 2019-07-01 17:08, A. Wilcox wrote:
> I would like to formally suggest that we take our -dbg packages and put
> them in a split repository, such as system-debug and user-debug.
>
> Non-stratum 1 mirrors could choose whether or not to mirror these as
> well. This would take a significant amount of disk space pressure off
> of stratum 2/3 mirrors.
+1.
> So, the overall size reduction would be about 20 GB per architecture.
Reducing e.g. the 1.0-beta3 package set by 80GB (as a low-ball estimate)
would reduce the repository to about 40GB in size, which makes hosting
multiple different versions concurrently a much more feasible prospect
for potential stratum 2/3 mirror providers.
--mm.
Received on Mon Jul 01 2019 - 18:39:25 UTC