Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency | Date | 5 Jan 1999 04:57:25 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990104124832.A6477@math.fu-berlin.de> By author: Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Don't whine, make a new mirror with both. > I thought about making ftp.de.kernel.org, but when I heard that I would > have to mirror all the archive, I decided against it. While we are a > major university with about 50 GB for the whole FTP server, it would be > unreasonable to expect us to mirror the whole archive when >90% is > redundant. > > First, I would only mirror the bz2 stuff, because network usage is paid > for by traffic, and international traffic is more expensive. Secondly, > I would only mirror the latest .tar.bz2 kernel, the others can be > reconstructed by backwards patching. >
*Please*... you're talking like 2 GB of disk space was a huge matter... a few years ago I would agreed, but these days, I think it is quite insignificant. Although yes, it is redundant, I think the uniformity of the mirror sites is more important than wasting some disk space.
Note that the LKAMS only requires a site to carry either .gz or .bz2 files, and some people have criticized that decision, too. It's a tradeoff.
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