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Re: Minutes from 10/9 meeting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Oct 22 11:53:49 2009

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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:53:40 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>> Jonathan Reed wrote:
>>     
>>>> VII. We really want to start using our own Ubuntu mirror
>>>>         
>>> mirrors.mit.edu is not yet production according to the maintainers. 
>>> We should set up our own mirror on athena10.mit.edu.   We may test
>>> with athena10 serving i386 jaunty only and see if that fixes our
>>> install problem.
>>>
>>> ACTION ITEM: broder will provide jweiss with disk usage data for
>>> portions of an ubuntu repository
>>> ACTION ITEM: jweiss will verify that we can add that much disk and
>>> will make the changes if possible
>>>       
>> Looks like mirrors.mit.edu's current usage is about 400G for the entire
>> Ubuntu mirror.
>>     
>
> Was there a number for something closer to the releases/platforms we
> actually care about

Well, mirrors.mit.edu is currently mirroring 4 architectures for 5
releases. Dividing by 5 isn't quite right, because the size of each
release has grown compared to the last, but 50G seems like a pretty
reasonable upper-bound for just i386/Jaunty.

- Evan

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