Agreed. Even if you downloaded all the distfiles for each of the 15 servers, the total downloaded would still be less than 23gb.
On Monday 20 October 2003 17:33, Patrick wrote: > A possible idea would be to have all the servers share a central nfs store > which contains > all the distfiles that have been downloaded so far and mount that on all > the computers that need distfiles in their respective portage directories. > > It would be alot smarter than downloading all the files and updating it > daily. > > just my 2c worth > > P > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erwin Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:30 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo distfiles - how much space > > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2003 08:47 schrieb Björn Lindström: > > Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > thanks, but how much space needs ALL of them (if i synchronise them > > > from a mirror)? > > > > a) Why on earth would you do that? (Unless you're setting up a public > > mirror, that's a good thing.) > > we have about 15 servers in our company, and I'm not interested in > downloading > the same packages from the internet for each server. If anybody knows a > better way of solving this problem, please let me know. > thank you! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
