[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Eclipse CVS repo archives mirrored anywher

[James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply denis.

Denis Roy wrote:
 > The entire directory is 17G, and it is completely regenerated every
> weekend.  I can't imagine that many people download all of that, so if 
> we introduce it into our mirroring system, we would be transferring 17G 
> x 40 mirrors every week.

You're right. I'm not sure it's necessarily wanted frequently enough to 
justify it either.

Unfortunately, when it's needed it's a bit slow downloading it from 
eclipse.org (my download is 6 hours and counting...).

What *might* help is if they were only made available via BitTorrent, at 
least then the entire bandwidth cost might be shared by other concurrent 
downloaders, and overall throughput might be higher.

Cheers,
James