On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 05, Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com> wrote: > > - diskspace is rather cheap and bandwith should be no problem as the > > number of downloads will remain relatively low. > Diskspace *is* a problem for mirrors, as is bandwidth in many countries. > Also, you should think about this issue not just in the context of the > single package you are interested in but as a general policy. Honnestly, no, this is not true anymore nowadays. With a 500Gb sata hard drive, you're able to have a full debian mirror (all archs). Such a disk is around 100€ nowadays. There is even machines that now have enough ram to put an arch+all mirror in a ramdisk (though they cost a bit more than 100€ ;p). So please, yest this was an issue not to long ago. Now ? no it's not. No, the real issue IMHO is indeed bandwidth, as this is still a quite expensive resource. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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