On 1/27/07, Hadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also want to write a script that lets a user easily mount the various public mirrors ( e.g debian's, ubuntu's). So I still wonder - Is it completely legal? The mirrors would not like the idea of users leeching their bandwidth constantly :)
Legal - sure, it's free software. Nice to the server - certainly not! When a whole OS runs, the same dirs/files are read many times. httpfs says it does no caching (beyond what the kernel does automatically), so it will probably download the same parts again and again, causing much more bandwidth than just downloading the image once. If the BitTorrent FUSE file system (btslave.sf.net) can give adequate performance, you should use it instead because it provides caching, distributes the bandwidth among many computers and even gives back. I say "if" because I suspect BT's high latency for piece requests will make it horribly unresponsive. OTOH, once you boot it once, it will already have the needed files and will be much faster next time. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (I read email only on weekends) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
