Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Weber dijo [Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:25:04AM +0200]: >> > j> By the way, it would be great if the mirrors kept more than just a >> > j> week of Diffs. [...] > Diffs are often quite small. The time needed to establish a connection > is often comparable to the time a diff takes to be downloaded... So, > even with pipelining and all, storing too many diffs becomes > irrelevant.
That is only true if you trying to optimize for time, instead of minimal download volume. And I doubt that 7 days is the sweet spot, Packages.gz is huge: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386$ du -sh /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.diff/ 6,7M /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 344K /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.diff/ cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]