Leonard den Ottolander said: > Hi William, > >> Problem being that downloading the reference RPMs and the patch would >> probably _increase_ server load. > > The reference rpm comes from your installation CD's. Please read the post I replied to. The comment was something like "I would use the space, or just use the additional bandwidth". As a point of reference, two of the three Fedora machines I run don't have a CD-Rom, and none of them were installed from CD media. >> Of course doing an either/or would be an option, but what do you make >> the >> default? > > Just leave as is, and let people who need to save on bandwidth setup their > systems to use the (r)syncing instead. How does this help the problem of an overworked download server, then? People on dial-up will get timeouts just as easily as people on broadband. > The following thread on rsync@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is informative: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07943.html Notice how few rsync servers there are on the mirror list? Part of the reason is that rsync can put a much larger load on the server. Any kind of decompression and/or recompression will just make that worse. -- William Hooper
