Re: ftp.kernel.org mirroring

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
23 Jul 1998 05:10:58 GMT


As a followup to my own article, these archives are currently about
4 GB in size; ftp.kernel.org itself has a 9 GB filesystem for these
archives.

The size is roughly half that if you exclude .bz2 files from
mirroring.

-hpa

Followup to: <6p6fml$jcr$1@palladium.transmeta.com>
By author: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Okay, this is an official quiz:
>
> How many people would be willing to run mirrors such that their site
> would be accessible via:
>
> http://XX.mirror.kernel.org/kernel.org/
> ftp://XX.mirror.kernel.org/kernel.org/
>
> (for some value of XX) as well as the round-robin
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/kernel.org/
> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/kernel.org/
>
> These sites would (of course) get priority access to ftp.kernel.org;
> in the somewhat longer term I'd like to move to some form of push- or
> rdist access as well.
>

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