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DateSun, 7 Jan 2007 19:53:46 +0530
FromAkula2 <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.20-rc4
On 1/7/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> There are distro mirrors on kernel.org, and the most famous ones
> are downloaded by huge number of people on their release day. What
> John explained is that the cumulated downloads during the 12 first
> hours after FC6 releases totalized 13 TB of data sent to the net,
> which is indeed 2 gig links at full load. Impressive !

Hmm got you. If that's the case can't we do away with the distro
mirrors since we have many mirrors & torrents? In this fashion we can
reduce huge loads I guess.

Or, is it sentimental to have a distro mirror on kernel.org because
this is the core kernel developer site?

>
> Willy

~Akula2
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