Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Ted Cabeen wrote:
> It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the
> servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd
> mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync just
> blends the downloaded packages into a iso-compatible image. Most of that
> process is the iso munging, not null blocks.
The major problems occure at release time when everyone and their dog are
trying to get the images. The PIK enables Debian mirrors to build their
own images and check them against cd-image.debian.org, this means faster
propogation of the images. When Mandrake is released everything locks up
for a few days, Red Hat mirrors build up non-public archives for a few
weeks and then make them public when the release is announced.
At the moment there is no problem with downloading Debian iso images, but
when woody is released ...
Phil.
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