[CentOS-mirror] Proposel - jigdo for iso Images

Thu Oct 29 19:34:01 UTC 2009
Uwe Kiewel <ml at kiewel-online.ch>

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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