From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: More precise tag following Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:39 -0500 (EST) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: David Lang , Chris Lee , Simon 'corecode' Schubert , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 29 18:58:46 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 1HBamD-0006tL-Bv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:58:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752536AbXA2R6l (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752537AbXA2R6l (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:41 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:23591 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752536AbXA2R6k (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:40 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JCN002PC5XR3FB0@VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:40 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Sure, but I was under the impression this wasn't the problem. Given what Chris said: |I don't have access to any servers that I could drop a 3GB packfile |onto and expect them to serve it. [...] If anybody wants to hook me up |with a hosting provider or a machine that just the git devs can access, |I'd be willing to tie up my upstream bandwidth for a few days so you |all can have access to it. And then David said: |if nobody else steps forward I can arrange something like this on my |home server (only 768K updtream bandwidth, but it's better then |nothing) So it looks like the server was the main issue here. > Once it's uploaded anywhere, we've got people willing to mirror it > infinitely .. Has this been set up with Chris already? Nicolas