Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-22 Thread Benoit Peccatte
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:07, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Say I have 6 36GB disks which cost me $100 apiece (USD600 / 216GB USD2.78 > > per gigabyte). Naturally, I put them in a RAID-5 array, for 180GB usable > > space. Now we're at $3.33/GB, not

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Benoit Peccatte
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:58, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeu 21/11/2002 à 21:44, Bernd Eckenfels a écrit : > > > But well, perhaps we can just stop supporting > distribution and this will already help. Then a single dedicated server can > > host the "old system debian distribution" for 386/486 c

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Benoit Peccatte
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:44, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:32:33PM -0500, Benoit Peccatte wrote: > > 10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot > > Moreover bandwidth costs too. > > multiple architectures can be placed on different servers. The

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Benoit Peccatte
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:15, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i remember a year or so ago when i complained about this worthless > > practice i said that it would end up consuming hundreds of megabytes > > - i was told that was ridiculous, it would neve