Re: New APT Version
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> The APT http method supports full pipelining, resume, date checking, and
> proxy servers. Typically it sends about -1- packet to the remote server
> that has all the files to fetch in it and then just waits while the remote
> streams data at it.
>
> For those of you with high bandwidth links, I have measured about a ~5%
> BPS (10k/s!) gain over ftp, and for those of you with high lag the lack of
> handshaking also dramtically speeds things up.
OK, so is there any such thing as good http mirroring tool that
preserves symlinks, etc (at least as much info as mirror)? If http is
substantially better, then it would be nice to use it to maintain
local mirrors too.
Thanks
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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