Looking at the size of Metalinks, it is apparent that they can become quite
large, if they contain a lot of mirrors.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13130 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with ~100 mirrors
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1575 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with 1 mirror
Of course, compression would alleviate the problem:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with ~100 mirrors.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1012 Sep 24 16:49 metalink with 1 mirror.gz
I think it might be useful to limit the number of mirrors to, let's say, 15-30,
and thereby limit the size of metalinks.
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