On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:25 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Just a short comment: Years ago someone made daily RCs avilable via an > > Rsync server. Thus it was very easy to get the latest RC -- you just > > rsynced the installer ISO you already had using rsync. As only small > > parts of the ISO changed from day to day it was just a few minutes task > > even with an not that fast internet connection. > > We had that not too long ago. The amount of people trying to rsync it > made the server completely unavailable and nobody got the bits. It was > a disaster. Too many people are just eager to "Get the latest bits" > whether they'll do useful testing with them or not, which ruins it for > the people who desperately need to verify a bug fix or sanity test a > compose. This seems like the sort of problem BitTorrent is designed to solve. Is that not a feasible solution because of administrative overhead on the setup side (which might be fixed with some automation) or because a differences-only mechanism is needed? -B. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
