On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:14:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | "pascal weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ? | >Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done. | >Do I miss something ? | | It doesn't save *you* bandwidth, it helps out the load on the mirrors. | That (at least in theory) is the point of the pseudo-image kit: you can | download the packages from a local mirror as normal, and mirrors don't | have to keep enormous .iso files around.
Yep, though in practice if someone (not to mention any names <wink>) bypasses the psuedo-image process and jumps straight to rsync I think it will actually increase the load on the server because it has to compute a checksum for each portion of the .iso, then transmit the entire iso anyways. -D
