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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:57:42 +0900
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Subject: Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> > what extra work would that be,
>>
>> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /)
>
> i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared
> blocks.

 He doesn't want a single copy though, he is hoping to mirror
sourcesdump. That's 2255 almost-copies of sources. Yes, there will be
changes in each snapshot, but how often does something like
/extra/python.iso.bz2 change?
-sqweek