Re: php.nederland.net

> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:13:24PM +0100, Sander Steffann wrote: > > I haven't been able to rsync our mirror the last couple of days (I think > > since feb 6). I just get a read error: Connection reset by peer... Am I > > blocked for one reason or another? I notice the other mirrors are > > up-to-date. > > no, you shouldn't be blocked. rsync is creaking under the load of the > currently mirroring method. i've raised the timeout, which might help. > > (after the digging around i've done, i think a great deal of the rsync > problems have to do with sheer size of the phpweb tree. even an rsync > that doesn't transfer any changed files has to transfer 1.5MB of file > listing data. we may need to switch to having the manuals distributed > as tar.bz2 packages that the mirrors unpack into the phpweb tree.) Nice idea, and you can do the same with notes ;) As I asked before, it would be nice to put up notes somewhere compressed up for the new CHM generation process to use. It's quite a headache to download all the files one by one, while a bz2 archive would be much easier to download without any FTP access to a mirror, and smaller two... Goba