[LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Sat Dec 16 13:32:48 PST 2006


On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Vince Hoang wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:39:56AM -1000, Julian Yap wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 09:08 -1000, Matt Darnell wrote:
>>>> The ISOs for various releases have squeezed out most of
>>>> the updates, so Julian is correct, only updates for the
>>>> Debian and SuSE repositories are available. As the ISOs get
>>>> larger, the SuSE repository will drop, and finally Debian.
>
> Over the years, I have noticed that the repositories were not
> really used much. The mirrored ISOs turned out to be used more
> and involved less maintenance, so I have been leaning heavily
> towards mirroring smaller projects and the more popular ISOs.
>
>>> Does the current box have room, or can you use them to bring
>>> up a seperate server for the updates?
>>
>> The current HOSEF server at UH is fully loaded with hard disk
>> drives.
>
> The last time there was major maintenance, we moved the disks
> around to provide much more space between them to allow for
> better cooling. We could physically squeeze more disks into the
> server now, but we would give up in reliability because the disks
> would sit very close to each other and start sharing IDE chains.
>
> If we get a donation of 250-500GB pairs, it would be worth
> pulling out the old disks to upgrade. I think donations in the
> 100GB range would be best served for school servers.

OK Matt, you donate a 500GB drive and I'll match it.   Lets co- 
ordinate so we buy a matched pair (same geometry, speed, etc.)

>
>>> I am sure HOSEF has a box it could donate to LUAU.
>
> I have been arguing against more servers and moving most of the
> web content off to a hosted facility and using the existing
> server mostly for backups and file service.

I thought the idea was to be able to use the bandwidth locally?

Personally, I'd rather have a Debian/Ubuntu .deb respository, a  
Fedora rpm repository, and a local CVSup tree for freebsd than
a bunch of ISO images.   (Does anyone install from the full ISO set  
any more?)

If we ever get the Kuokoa project off the ground, we're doing to need  
a repository for that.

Jim




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