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SubjectRe: ftp.kernel.org mirroring
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

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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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