Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors

[Fred Van Andel]

Rainer Groesslinger <scandium@g.o> wrote:
(07/22/2003 06:24)

>I think we could save a lot of bandwidth _and_ space if such files aren't
>placed on the gentoo mirrors if not absolutly neccessary, I don't see a real
>reason why we need to put hundreds of files on the gentoo mirrors which are
>already stored on a very good mirroring system.

I am working on a p2p system specifically for distrubuting the contents of our  distfile mirrors. I hope to have proof of concept code ready for review in a couple of weeks.

Fred Van Andel
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