Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:16:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: ftp.kernel.org mirroring |
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > H. Peter Anvin enscribed thusly: > > As a followup to my own article, these archives are currently about > > 4 GB in size; ftp.kernel.org itself has a 9 GB filesystem for these > > archives. > > > The size is roughly half that if you exclude .bz2 files from > > mirroring. > > I would be more than willing to add my site to the list of public > mirrors once my cable modem is in (cable outfit is promising any day now). > Since I have my own domain and DNS servers on my ISDN lines, I can deal > with the DHCP issues from the cable outfit.
How fast is your cable modem? I know some have limited their upload bandwidth to 32 Kbps. I'd say anything below 2 Mbps is not sufficient for a mirror.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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