Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's "how much does disk space cost?", and then there's "we have x > disk space available currently, and no budget for expansion right now; > we only use y GB of it; how much can we mirror with the free disk space > as a service to the community?"
This is why I asked Branden if we could afford a couple more big disks for Debian. He said, IIRC, it would take 1% of our money. > I don't imagine everyone is going to be able to buy additional disks for > their mirror servers just to accomodate Debian. In which case, they should just continue to merror the i386 packages they have now. I would certainly agree that if we add such packages, we should do it in a way that makes it easy to mirror only some. > I'm pretty sure *no* one's going to add a $5, 5GB HD to their mirror > server if that's how much Debian pushes them over their current > capacity. I'm sure of it too, since you can't even buy a 5GB disk anymore. > There are likely to be some trade-offs if Debian takes on > packages that mirror operators consider "useless bloat". Then > again, we seem to have a large number of mirror operators > well-snowed as it is right now, so maybe a few more GB won't make a > difference. ;) Right; if that happens, then those mirrors won't carry those additional architectures. No harm done.