www/server mirror.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       11/03/07 17:38:24

Modified files:
        server         : mirror.html 

Log message:
        mirror layout + distro words

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/mirror.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.89&r2=1.90

Patches:
Index: mirror.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/mirror.html,v
retrieving revision 1.89
retrieving revision 1.90
diff -u -b -r1.89 -r1.90
--- mirror.html 9 Feb 2011 22:27:13 -0000       1.89
+++ mirror.html 7 Mar 2011 17:36:51 -0000       1.90
@@ -32,15 +32,21 @@
 can review it and add you to the <a href="/order/ftp.html">mirror
 list</a>.  Thanks.</p>
 
-<p>Mirroring the entire GNU FTP server requires approximately 22GB disk
-space (as of 3&nbsp;December&nbsp;2009), which is distributed in the
-following way:</p>
-<pre>
-/gnu:                20G
-/non-gnu:           400M
-/old-gnu:           1.4G
+<p>Mirroring the entire GNU FTP server requires approximately 100GB disk
+space (as of 3&nbsp;March&nbsp;2011), which is distributed in the
+following way (all values are greatly rounded):</p>
+<pre>
+/gnu+linux-distros 60G
+/gnu               25G
+/video             10G
+/old-gnu            3G
 </pre>
 
+<p>As you can see, more than half the space is taken by the
+<tt>gnu+linux-distros</tt> images.  Feel free to exclude those from your
+mirror if you wish.  The absolute minimal useful thing to mirror is the
+<tt>gnu</tt> directory.
+
 <p>Due to resource and security concerns, we do not offer direct rsync
 or special FTP service to update mirrors.  If you would like to use
 rsync (which is advisable), several reliable third party sites provide
@@ -206,7 +212,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/02/09 22:27:13 $
+$Date: 2011/03/07 17:36:51 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>