Le 2011-05-19 23:14 +0700, Nguyen Vu Hung a écrit : > > How come that can be called "sucking" ?? > Imagine hundreds of mirrors start downloading at them same time.
Yep, but you have to understand these hundreds mirrors — For hundreds countries? Are we talking about the same country-wide mirrors? — will decrease direct downloads by an order of… hundreds, may be thousands or higher orders… So in the end it still is in their interest. > As far as I can tell, there is no check after you wget the files. > That's what I concern. And you can do it manually if someone or you > notice that there is something wrong. > > FYI, on software development, we spend most of our time dealing with > exceptions :) My point is that we would be aware of this _rare_ exception right away, since a .tar.gz archive extraction would immediately bug out if there was something wrong. Also, dealing with exceptions is not always worth the time it requires to set-up or the resources it consumes for this mater. But, well, now I can only agree that I would have better used my time to enhance my script for this exception handling instead of answering those emails… ;-) -- Jean Christophe ANDRÉ — Coordonnateur des infrastructures techniques Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) — http://www.auf.org/ ✉ : AUF, 21 Lê Thánh Tông, T.T. Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Việt Nam ℡ : +84 4 38247382 ✦ ℻ : +84 4 38247383 ✦ Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ⎧Note personnelle: merci d'éviter de m'envoyer des fichiers Microsoft⎫ ⎩Office, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments ⎭ _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
