Hi Rick, Rick Thomas <rbtfrog@gmail.com> writes: > Fetching a DVD image across the North Atlantic takes a long time -- 5-7 hours. > > And the bit-torrent seeders don't provide the beta images, let alone > the daily or weekly images. This is not the answer to the question asked, but if you're downloading a daily image over HTTP or FTP then you're almost certainly doing it wrong. If you regularly play with these images then you've probably got a fairly recent one laying around, in which case you could use rsync for a much faster download, but if you want to be kind to cdimage.debian.org the right thing to do is use jigdo, which will pull almost all of the image from your nearest mirror, in form of packages, and then assemble them into the image locally. If you have an old DVD image, you can mount that and offer it to jigdo as a source of packages, saving even more bandwidth. > So... are there any volunteers out there to provide a mirror of > cdimage.debian.org/cdimage on this side of the pond? How big a > machine would it require? How much bandwidth? That said, I'd imagine that a US-ian mirror would be helpful to people that cannot be bothered to work out how to do the right thing. It is possible that one could be smarter than simply mirroring the whole lot, since for some of the images it may be that you find that nobody ever tries to download them from you, so the act of mirroring them would simply add load to cdimage.debian.org. Steve McIntyre proposed a while ago (and I think did some work on) a FUSE file system that would take jigdo files and a local mirror, and provide the illusion of a cdimage mirror without needing the images locally. If you could implement that then any mirror willing to run that FUSE filesystem could provide the content you're looking to mirror, without consuming the bandwidth or disk space required to really do that. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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