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