Lähettäjä: anonym Päiväys: Vastaanottaja: The Tails public development discussion list Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] Cleaning IUKs and updating disk space requirements
for mirrors
intrigeri: >>>> 4. Make sure that we don't break them again silently in the
>>>> future. Would it be complicated to check the size of the whole
>>>> thing during the release process? I'll let the RMs tell me if it's
>>>> worth the extra work.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good idea! Where can I find an always up-to-date list
>>> of what directories that are mirrored (IIRC not all of the ones in
>>> our rsync directory are)? Then I can cook up a command that uses that
>>> list to calculate the current mirror disk usage.
>
>> I always forgot how our uploading mechanism work as I never interact
>> with it myself. But if you are not sure yourself about how to compute
>> this number easily then it probably means that this idea is more
>> complicated than it should and that we should drop it :)
>
> It's actually very simple: everything is mirrored.
>
> We still tell mirror operators that they can exclude the "obsolete"
> directory if they wish, but we've deleted it on our side months ago,
> so I'm going to drop these bits from the doc.
Ah, simple indeed!
> So, anonym: please either do this immediately after reading this
> email, or give yourself a ticket so we don't forget about it.
Done in commit a1929d9d8e6fb38b07de3862be4fa6793e058124. I used the "30 GiB" number, so if sajolida settles on something else it needs to be changed.
> I also thought that a monitoring check might be useful, but IMO it's
> overkill as we can solve this much more easily, and closer to where it
> should be fixed if a problem is found, in the release process doc.
