From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: More precise tag following Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:42:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <7vy7nqxd08.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070127080126.GC9966@spearce.org> <45BB9C8B.8020907@fs.ei.tum.de> <204011cb0701271136m655815f6o1501de2bf699b362@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Lang , Chris Lee , "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 29 18:43:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBaX0-0007rb-KS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:43:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752520AbXA2Rm7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:42:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752521AbXA2Rm7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:42:59 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:46159 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752520AbXA2Rm6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:42:58 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l0THgL1m004843 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:42:22 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l0THgKsc025307; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:42:20 -0800 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.465 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.111__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.172 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Chris: why don't you just set up a Bittorrent feed for it? When we'll > all start fetching it then the bandwidth will increasingly be shared > amongst all interested people. Well, it doesn't really help Chris. All the data will end up starting from him anyway. The problem isn't the bandwidth for lots of people to download it, but the bandwidth for a *single* upload ;) Once it's uploaded anywhere, we've got people willing to mirror it infinitely .. Linus