[tech] XEmacs component missing

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:51:22PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > ftp.wa.au.debian.org          /pub/linux/debian/

I've been using it. ::-)

> > ftp.uwa.edu.au                /mirrors/linux/debian/

<cough>

> > ftp.tower.net.au              /debian/

That's an odd one. Seems to have bo, slink and potato, but not hamm
or woody.

> > All these appear to be reachable with WAIX :-)
> > 
> > As for mirroring mecca^H^H^Hmirror.aarnet, if you provide the disk
> > space, I'll handle the rest :-)  Go on, I'm sure you can scrounge 450G
> > together in no time.
>
> OK - so if we can get disk sorted, will UCS pay for the traffic..?
> I can donate a 9GB + there's 13GB of IPI disk from DaveT's machines.
>
> Could we mirror a select 25 or so GB of mirror.aarnet if its public
> access..?
[...]

That's very tempting - I've been thinking about how that could work and
the funky things we could do.

The simple "give UCS a disk" is fine - if it helps us have local
mirrors, that's great. Hmmm... there's another 47GB Seagate on ebay...
(full height, fast SCSI).

If we run it ourselves, we get to try other access methods (rsync (yay!
it was running on uniwa for a while ::-) ) or Coda), or other things.
Time travel FS'es have been written where you can see a snapshot of the
archive at any given point in the past, or you might just keep changes
for the past week.

Nick.

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