Alec Warner wrote:
Is this plan for server side only distfiles, or do you want
/usr/portage/distfiles/{a-z}/ on the local system as well.
Changing the layout on the server suffices, no need to fiddle around
with more scripts than necessary ;).
Is there any needed performance benefit out of the current
> scheme? Can you give some numbers as to how much this will
> help the average user?
Listing the directory via proftpd takes the better of 10 minutes on
"cold" caches and consumes around 1 minute of CPU time on an Athlon XP
2800+. With that figures in mind one easily could DoS a mirror-server if
he wants.
best regards,
Michael Renner
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