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Re: aid to iso download

To: stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: aid to iso download
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 20:16:07 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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"D. Stimits" wrote:

> I just realized how poorly this last paragraph was written. To clarify,
> if the iso with .gz extension is not already available, I'll try adding
> it to get the server to do on-the-fly compression. But the compression
> itself is not trivial with 300 MB, so it would be better to have a
> precompressed image if possible.

Ok, I'm convinced.  And now that the *.gz server trick is out, I don't
want 100 people all hitting oss with gzip -9 on a 300meg file.  :)

The gzipped iso should be available in a few minutes.

Also, if you get the PR3 iso, when it comes time to grab the final 1.0.1
version, remember that rsync is your friend in these situations...

-Eric

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