On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > Another thing we did was rename "Old" to "old" in the /dist directory,
> This had the consequence of causing mirrors to think it was a brand > new directory, and with 26 megabytes worth of new data. Eek! So if > you get a warning message from your "mirror" program that a big > directory just disappeared, don't worry, that's fine. ouuuuch... please inform people next time. RedHat did it the other day, moving the entire "devel" into "current" when the new version was announced. a few hundred mirrors around the world had to re-download over a gig of software JUST when all the users wanted to access ftp.redhat.com too. ONE simple Email a day in advance would have changed a lot of things, and many admins would have used a simple "mv" to save the bandwidth... ------------------------------------------------------------- Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scalable Solutions POBox 3600, Jerusalem 91035, Israel Tel (972)2-642-6822 http://www.scso.com/~ira Check out: http://www.linux.org.il
