Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:13:01 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.2 ?? |
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Jared Mauch wrote: > > Um, it's a bit larger than that.. but not by much. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jared 12226 Jul 5 1996 patch-2.0.2.gz > > > Jacek Zapala graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > > > > ftp.funet.fi: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 torvalds lnuxkern 0 Jul 5 18:11 patch-2.0.2.gz > > > > Not so large as 2.0.1 :-)
Note that ftp.funet.fi has a caching ftp-server, and one thing it caches is directory lookups (in a special ".FTP_LS_DATA" file so that it doesn't need to look up all the inode information etc).
However, it's not implemented very well, and as a result the directory cache gets out of sync with the real information when I upload things to the site. I _used_ to be able to fix that with "dir -XYZ", but it seems that that doesn't update the cache any more, so now the directory cache only gets updated when the automatic update scripts run.
You can just "get" the file anyway, and you should get the correct file unless you happened to ftp in when my uploads were still in progress (but that's pretty unlikely: there's a reasonably fast network between the university and the ftp.funet.fi file, so my uploads seldom take more than a half a minute or something like that).
If you are still nervous, you can always try out ftp.cs.helsinki.fi, which doesn't do that kind of caching, and actually gets the kernels about 2 minutes before ftp.funet.fi does ;-). However, that site _should_ be considered a secondary site because it's a lot smaller than ftp.funet.fi (ftp.funet.fi is a large site with local RAID disks, a powerful alpha CPU etc, while ftp.cs.helsinki.fi is just a cluster of three normal pentiums running Linux that get the files over NFS over normal ethernet).
Linus
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