Re: ftp.kernel.org mirroring

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:32:17 -0700 (PDT)


Do the legacy kernels need to be mirrored? Perhapse some space can be
saved by only mirroring the later 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels.
Just a thought,
Gerhard

On 23 Jul 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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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