Re: source mirrors

From: dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: source mirrors
Date: 2009-01-20 21:36:06
Message-ID: 937d27e10901201336y110bbe12o534b34ea494b99f6@mail.gmail.com
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On 1/20/09, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 17:58 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:44 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:49:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> > > > I suggest we eliminate either bz2 or gz.
>> > >
>> > > Only if you will personally handle the ensuing outrage.
>> >
>> > *shrug* It isn't like I haven't handled ensuing outrage before. I am not
>> > going to make a big deal out of it but it sure seems like a complete
>> > waste of space for our mirrors.
>>
>> Did anyone complain?
>
> No but we have turned away mirroring things in the past due to space.
> Granted it was "a lot" of space (vmware images).

Which we rejected not for their storage requirements, but because they
are very large files which would have a non-trivial bandwidth hit when
~90 mirrors rsync a new 740MB image within a few hours of each other.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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