> I asked Ryan (of DSA) about this and he told me that he'd prefer it if we > just had people use jigdo since the debian/ mirrors are plenty and likely > much faster than mirrors overloaded with heaps of rampant image downloaders. > Frankly I agree with that sentiment, there sure are plenty of better ways to > waste bandwidth.
I ended up installing jigdo just so I could get my hands on some 3.0 CD's for myself ... but it appears that our mirror is the exception not the rule. Looking over the past 3 months we've had over 4.0TB of Debian CD images downloaded off of our mirror ... _a lot_ of people actually download all 7 CD's when most of them really just need the netinst images ... as a mirror admin I'd love to be able to get the most bang for my buck in terms of users served up. I really wish we could encourage the use of netinst images over downloading _all_ of the iso's. And yes, some people need all of those iso's ... that's fine ... but if a user downloaded a decent netinst image (that was promoted by the website) and installed with that they would be done far faster than if they had to download all 7 iso's. > But then, we already have a bunch of mirrors that do have images, so > _something_ needs to be done to bring back the consistency. I think its got to be a combination of using jigdo and then tieing that into the work that Joey has been doing on consistency checking. Quite honestly, this is the "cheapest" way to do it. Scott :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
