[CentOS-mirror] Only .torrents to mirrors?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 3 15:10:23 UTC 2006


Mark Nipper wrote:
> On 02 May 2006, Lance Davis wrote:
>> One problem is that Apache historically doesnt cope with files larger 
>> than 2GB , and just refuses to display a directory listing at all when 
>> such files are present.
> 
>         Out of curiosity, what are other people running for their
> web server?  I'm running Apache 2.2 specifically because I mirror
> some things with DVD images which break the 2GB boundary.  I was
> running Cherokee previously, but found Apache better suited for
> my needs.  But I'm curious how other, larger mirrors are handling
> this.
> 

Using 2.0 on kernel.org, but on a 64-bit box.

2.0 doesn't have an inherent problem with large files, but I gather 
RedHat didn't want to recompile it in such a way to break all the 
plugins on 32-bit boxes.

	-hpa



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