Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency | Date | 4 Jan 1999 20:00:21 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990103173804.12831A-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > One thing I don't like is when files on the mirror get corrupted or > only partially downloaded. As far as I can tell, there appears to be > problems with some of the mirroring packages, or alternatively with > the server at ftp.kernel.org when it's used by mirroring software, > which result in the mirror getting a corrupted copy of some files. > > Don't laugh: A similar problem existed at one time with one of the > sites I mirror, and was due to a bug in the ftpd server at the remote > end. The bug was only activated by mirroring software, not by the > manual ftp sessions, because it only took effect when commands came in > at the sort of speed common with mirroring software - maybe you can > type a dozen or so commands per second, but few other people can...
I believe this. I have been encouraging the official mirrors to use rsync rather than FTP, which tends to be more resistant to these kinds of problems.
> Incidentally, the SunSITE-UK mirror carries all files in the mirrored > directories, but it appears that ftp.kernel.org isn't that consistant > about the compressor it uses. As an example, whilst it has both .gz > and .bz2 versions of many of the kernels, a large number of the 0.xx > kernels are only provided in .Z format. >
That is because gzip wasn't around back then. ftp.kernel.org doesn't use any compressor per se, although there is a script around which converts .gz -> .bz2 automagically. .Z files aren't seen by this script. -- PGP: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 See http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/ for web page and full PGP public key I am Bahá'í -- ask me about it or see http://www.bahai.org/ "To love another person is to see the face of God." -- Les Misérables
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