Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1

Frank Sorenson
2005-05-02T22:43:50Z

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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> And even *more* importantly, note that when downloading a -mm or -rc3 patch,
> there's minimal server overhead - it opens *one* file and streams it to the
> FTP connection. sendfile() anybody? ;)

Also, note that once I've downloaded the single .bz2 file, I can easily
copy or move it to the various computers I'll be compiling and
installing it on. It's much easier to transfer the one file (via USB
memory stick, SCP, CD, etc.) than a whole tree.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Systems Manager, Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
frank@tuxrocks.com
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