On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:07:43 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 7 2007 10:49, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:50:57 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Jan 7 2007 10:03, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >> >On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:58:38AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> >> >[..] > >> >> >entries in directories with millions of files on disk. I'm not > >> >> >certain it would be that easy to try other filesystems on > >> >> >kernel.org though :-/ > >> >> > >> >> Changing filesystems would mean about a week of downtime for a server. > >> >> It's painful, but it's doable; however, if we get a traffic spike > >> >> during > >> >> that time it'll hurt like hell. > >> > >> Then make sure noone releases a kernel ;-) > > > >maybe the week of LCA ?
Sorry, it means Linux.conf.au (Australia): http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Jan. 15-20, 2007 > I don't know that acronym, but if you ask me when it should happen: > _Before_ the next big thing is released, e.g. before 2.6.20-final. > Reason: You never know how long they're chewing [downloading] on 2.6.20. > Excluding other projects on kernel.org from my hypothesis, I'd suppose the > lowest bandwidth usage the longer no new files have been released. (Because > everyone has them then more or less.) ISTM that Linus is trying to make 2.6.20-final before LCA. We'll see. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
