On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > And for those who think keeping a private mirror is trivial, let me give you > some stats. A full snapshot of Cygwin, 32-bit + 64-bit (+noarch) + source > packages (Current and Previous) is about 137Gb. Don't believe me? Your > setup.ini has a size (and a hash) for every package. Add them up yourself. > Now consider that I have about 4000 snapshots (and counting!) of Cygwin. > Oh! Quick quiz: > What's 137Gb * 4000? > Answer: 535Tb. > Now, do you really think I have that amount of storage? Of course not. The > Time Machine isn't organized like that (don't be silly). It's currently > about 500Gb (which is quite a savings, if you think about it :-)
I would dearly love to know more about how you did this specific piece... -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
