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Re: [eclipse-mirrors] Size of a full Eclipse mirror?

I'm just back from vacation and I'm catching up.  Here are a few thoughts:

Size: In my opinion, 350G for a Full Eclipse mirror is just insane, and it's unreasonable of us to expect our mirrors to dedicate so much disk space for us. I'm working with some folks on solving this issue. We may end up having an explicit include list to only include specific high-traffic projects and exclude everything else.

Permissions: When our mirror was small (<60G) we ran a script every 15 minutes to fix broken permissions. After a while, that script would take 20 minutes to run, and would create ridiculous disk I/O. Some mirror maintainers said the home site was too slow, so I stopped fixing permissions.

Some of our projects build using servers in Eclipse.org's colo facility, using local file systems. This cuts down on our bandwidth costs and build complexity, since everything is local. Placing additional burden on our beloved OSS developers (by forcing them to use rsync, for instance) is not what I want to do.

In short: I am well aware of the pain you are experiencing, and I am doing something about it. Thanks for your patience and mostly, thanks for being an Eclipse mirror.

Denis


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