On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: >On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Richard Atterer wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>>Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than >>>when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me >>>that they were limited by the disk seek and not by the bandwith used by >>>the users. >> >>That's interesting - I hadn't heard of this kind of problem before! :-/ >>Jigdo is really designed for the "no bandwidth" and/or "no disc space" >>case. But this is not a common opinion among mirror operators, or is it?? > >Well, a jigdo-build against our debian mirror will use slightly more >bandwidth and much more resources than a iso download. Of course, a jigdo >download using another debian mirror would be a big win. Hmmm. I should really finish off jigdoofus - the fuse-based filesystem that can build ISO images on the fly from jigdo files and a mirror. Then people will have the option to choose between disk space for storing the ISOs and CPU/memory for building them on demand. If only there were more hours in the day... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
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