hi Japheth,

Redwire Broadband (Japheth Cleaver) wrote:

Hello all,

We are considering setting up a public mirror of the CentOS distribution and were wondering what the current disk space requirement is, along with a rough idea of how quickly it grows.

Graham already answered this question for you - the mirror size will stay about the same - with the addition of a few packages each month, for updates and as some new packages are moved into centosplus /extras.

One thing to keep in mind is that during the Update Cycle switchover, ( eg. when CentOS4.3 is released ) there are 2 tree's - each completely populated - for 10 - 14 days. So you need to cater for hdd space requirements during this time. An additional 10 - 12 GB free should be enough.

In addition, is there any provision being considered for partial mirrors, if older releases, or the more esoteric platforms, can't be fit?

There are a few people who only mirror CentOS4 and only do certain Architectures. However, its nice to have complete mirrors. If you do decide to mirror and pickup a single release, at-least try and mirror all Arch's for that Release.

hth

- K