Karanbir Singh wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
(we are consistently faster than Bittorrent during Fedora Core releases, for example, and that is an extremely popular fileset during peak traffic.)
With the CentOS releases, we've never had that sort of a problem with .torrents - eg. at time of 4.3 Release, we had > 2 GB/sec offering torrent seeds by over 20 machines, each one sitting on > 100mbps links to the internet.
But, not everyone can use torrents, and it would indeed be a good thing to have some of the mirrors offer it as a download.
Well, we (kernel.org) would like to offer them, but we'd have to be served them in the first place.
Similarly, we're perfectly happy -- in fact, we encourage -- keeping the entire historical archive, and would rather appreciate it if we could get an downlink which didn't "helpfully" clean up our disks...
-hpa