Re: kernel mirror sillyness RE: bz2

Tall cool one (ice@mama.indstate.edu)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:12:43 -0500

Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu> writes:
> Well... Sometime in the last couple days my kernel mirror ran out of space
> on it's disk. by not mirroring the bz2 files I freed up a little over
> 700mb of free space. Yeah bzip2 is smaller, but the mirror takes up half
> again as much space now if you feel you have to have everything.
>
> Do we really feel that distributing kernels in two different formats is
> warranted? presumably if you want to avoid the bandwidth suck you'll grab
> a patch...

If you don't want the bz2 files, don't mirror them. If your mirror
program won't let you selectively remove files from mirroring, then consider
using a better mirror program, such as lurkftp.

Switching over entirely to bz2 might best wait until 2.2, then we can
call it a "feature". =)

- Steve

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