> 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.
I would be more than willing to add my site to the list of public
mirrors once my cable modem is in (cable outfit is promising any day now).
Since I have my own domain and DNS servers on my ISDN lines, I can deal
with the DHCP issues from the cable outfit.
I would prefer to not do the .bz2 files but if you really want
mirrors to be complete, I can do that and I'll even bring another drive
on line just for that purpose...
I would have one proviso though... I've been mirroring down the
samba site. When Tridge recently made some requests to help ease up
on his bandwidth problems, I switched that mirroring over the anon-rsync
service. That was amazing! First time you are sucking down everything,
it's still a significant performance improvement over fmirror or other ftp
mirroring packages. I think the "first time" improvements are largely due to
inefficiencies in compiling the lists of files and directories to mirror.
Once the site has been mirrored once, rsync absolutely screams. It is at
LEAST a couple of orders of magnitude faster than an equivalent ftp mirroring.
I know you guys are working with Andrew and using Jitterbug for bug tracking
and patches. Can we get an rsync service (or is there one already) on
ftp.kernel.org?
> -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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