[CentOS-mirror] Proposel - jigdo for iso Images
Uwe Kiewel
ml at kiewel-online.ch
Thu Oct 29 20:34:01 UTC 2009
Nick Olsen schrieb:
> Addition of jigdo yes. Replace ISO's no.
Does it make sense? If someone whants to have a iso image, he will
download the iso file and will not use jigdo...
More sense makes to keep the boot.iso and replace the DVD and CD images
by jigdo
> Educating joe sixpack on using something new, well I like to use
> altercation avoidance.
>
> On 10/29/2009 2:51 PM, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what do you think about using jigdo for distributing iso Images?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo
>> http://atterer.net/jigdo/
>>
>> advantages:
>> - save space at mirror because data are now redandant (as rpm's and
>> "inside" the iso images
>> - the webserver does handle small files more efficient than big
>> files
>> - can save bandwith if a download of an iso image aborts and
>> have to be restarted
>>
>> disadvantage:
>> - maybe more requests, for downloading all rpm's to build the iso
>> at client site
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy discussing!
>> Uwe
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