Re: RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

On 29.05.2009 18:25, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Just a short comment: Years ago someone made daily RCs avilable via
>> an Rsync server. Thus it was very easy to get the latest RC -- you
>> just rsynced the installer ISO you already had using rsync. As only
>> small parts of the ISO changed from day to day it was just a few
>> minutes task even with an not that fast internet connection.
> We had that not too long ago.  The amount of people trying to rsync
> it made the server completely unavailable and nobody got the bits.
> It was a disaster.

I meant the "long ago" time, back in the Core days and before you were
working for RH. Back then it worked quite well afaicr.

CU
knurd