Subject: Re: mirror question
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/06/1997 16:54:21
>> >I asked this on netbsd-help, but it appears to have fallen upon deaf ears...
>> >
>> >I'm about to start mirroring ftp.netbsd.org again here at work, and I'm 
>> >wondering if anybody knows about how much disk a full mirror eats now?
>> 
>> [wcarchive:NetBSD] pwd
>> /archive/.28/NetBSD
>> [wcarchive:NetBSD] du -k -s .
>> 3656039 .
>> 
>>    ...so about 3.7GB.
>
>That's kind of odd...
>
>I just ran:
>
>% du -sk *
>168210  NetBSD-1.0
>312684  NetBSD-1.1
>600122  NetBSD-1.2
>276716  NetBSD-1.2.1
>616588  NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA
>272624  NetBSD-current
>2       README
>2       README.export-control
>613728  arch
>294224  mailing-lists
>34660   misc
>141606  packages
>952     sup
>
>on ftp.netbsd.org, which sums to 3332118...  You guys using really big
>blocks, or something?  8-)

   We're mirroring /pub; the above appears to be for /pub/NetBSD. Do you still
consider it a "full" mirror if one mirrors only /pub/NetBSD?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project