Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > > > > I really think thousands of Debian GNU/Linux users would love It
> > > > > > How about a poll " would you love an i686 or i586 Debian GNU/Linux
> > > > > > distro ?"
> > > > > ... and would you like to pay your mirror provider for additional disk
> > > > > space and traffic?
> > You mean Debian has difficulties finding 10 GB of online disk space ?
>
> I know at least 20 mirrors in this Far Eastern country called Japan
> alone, and I know they would not like it if the required amount to
> mirror every day has risen by about 100MB/day.
>
> Note that mirroring Debian aeems takes an order of 100MB/architecture/day,
> which is rather high-cost in networking (the last time I calculated
> it told me that you must have more than 32kbps/architecture to be able
> to keep up a full mirror)
Perhaps this is a silly suggestion, but wouldn't it be time to try some
xdelta patches for binaries jointly with a modified gzip? (The modified
gzip helps dividing the binary in chunks that can be compared with
xdelta). I think I read this suggestion from the rsync documentation. This
would lower the bandwidth needs for both mirrors and end-apt-get-users.
Best regards.
diego
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