Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Jan 1999 04:57:25 GMT

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.

-hpa

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