Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

Felix von Leitner (leitner@math.fu-berlin.de)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:48:32 +0100


> I'm getting a bit disturbed by an inconsistency between the
> kernel.org mirrors. For example, I have just connected to
> katelyn.optilinkcomm.net, which apparently carries only bz2 files
> and not gz files.

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.

Felix

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