On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:48:47PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:07:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > >The habits (and I have them too) of thinking that disk space is costly > > >are really old habits that it's time to break. > > No, it's not. Low end disks are cheap. High end disks still aren't. > Disks are still $1 per gigabyte. IDE disks are more than sufficient > for this task, aren't they? Other disks run--omigosh--up to $2 per > gigabyte. 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?" I don't imagine everyone is going to be able to buy additional disks for their mirror servers just to accomodate Debian. 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. 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. ;) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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