[CentOS] minimize download bandwidth techniques
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Apr 12 19:26:34 UTC 2007
Dale Sykora wrote:
> I know of a few techniques for minimizing server bandwidth when
> bittorent is not an option.
>
> 1) If you have the beta isos, you can rename them as centos 5 isos and
> then rsync from a mirror that allows rsync (such as kernel.org). Then
> only changes from beta to centos 5 plus some overhead is downloaded. I
> suppose you could use this technique with bittorrent too.
>
if one file near the beginning of the ISO changes size by even a block,
then the whole rest of the ISO will be different, this will gain you
nothing.
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