Re: Debian Issues!!
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:14:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
| "pascal weller" <pascalw@gmx.ch> wrote:
| >what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ?
| >Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done.
| >Do I miss something ?
|
| It doesn't save *you* bandwidth, it helps out the load on the mirrors.
| That (at least in theory) is the point of the pseudo-image kit: you can
| download the packages from a local mirror as normal, and mirrors don't
| have to keep enormous .iso files around.
Yep, though in practice if someone (not to mention any names <wink>)
bypasses the psuedo-image process and jumps straight to rsync I think
it will actually increase the load on the server because it has to
compute a checksum for each portion of the .iso, then transmit the
entire iso anyways.
-D
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