Re: More precise tag following

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701291246090.3021@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701290940520.3611@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> > Chris: why don't you just set up a Bittorrent feed for it?  When we'll 
> > all start fetching it then the bandwidth will increasingly be shared 
> > amongst all interested people.
> 
> Well, it doesn't really help Chris. All the data will end up starting from 
> him anyway.

Sure, but I was under the impression this wasn't the problem. Given what Chris said:

|I don't have access to any servers that I could drop a 3GB packfile 
|onto and expect them to serve it. [...] If anybody wants to hook me up
|with a hosting provider or a machine that just the git devs can access, 
|I'd be willing to tie up my upstream bandwidth for a few days so you 
|all can have access to it.

And then David said:

|if nobody else steps forward I can arrange something like this on my 
|home server (only 768K updtream bandwidth, but it's better then 
|nothing)

So it looks like the server was the main issue here.

> Once it's uploaded anywhere, we've got people willing to mirror it 
> infinitely ..

Has this been set up with Chris already?

Nicolas