Subject: (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-07-24 07:35:04 GMT (5 years, 49 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours and 26 minutes ago)
There has been some discussion lately about how to reduce disk usage on mirrors. Some programs (typically games) takes a lot of space and must be stored in the portage-tree due to lack of good host-sites on their own. How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it. Ok, I guess this might be a rather stupid proposal. I don't expect any supportive comments. Just had to get it off my chest -) Flames are nevertheless welcome. -- gentoo-dev <at> gentoo.org mailing list