Re: ftp.kernel.org overloaded :-(

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 01:06:27 +1000

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:52:18 +0200 (MET DST),
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@lightside.ddns.org> wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
>> Even better: just store the most recent complete tarball.
>And whenever someone has to go back to some ancient kernel to see where a
>problem begins, what does he do? Get and reverse all patches, instead of
>some tarballs?

Use PRCS or CVS or any other change tracking system. A complete prcs
tree of 2.1 from 2.1.42 through 2.1.119 with a fair number of local
branches (172 versions in total) takes 83MB uncompressed. Since the
2.1.119 uncompressed source is 50MB and a single compressed tar ball is
10MB, that is a fair trade off. I can pick out any version I want with
3 commands :-

mkdir /usr/src/version
cd /usr/src/version
prcs checkout linux-2.1 version

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