Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

Ok, then I guess I was wrong.

Maybe a solution to quanstrom's problem would be to use file names
based on the creation date (one would only need to keep one or two
around).

uriel

On 4/5/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Would be nice if the BL overlords could avoid this, maybe by moving
> > the previous day ISO before the new one takes its place, similar to
> > how replica moves foo to _foo.
>
> It already does that (maybe the overlords aren't as dumb as you think).
> But if the HTTP download gets interrupted after a new file has been
> dropped in its place, a client retrying the HTTP request will see
> the new file.  If your download is not interrupted, then it will get
> a consistent file.
>
> Even if you are getting interrupted, the CD is at most 100MB
> compressed, which is only 5 hours at 56kbps, so you've got plenty
> of time to grab it in the 24-hour window.
>
> Further, I doubt very much that this is the cause of people with
> broken ISO images.  You can't get that far if you get half of one
> download and half of another.  They're compressed, and the checksum
> will fail during decompression even if the web browser doesn't notice
> that the file changed in the second request.  So you'd end up with a
> broken .bz2 file, not a broken image.  If you ever get to a .iso file,
> it will be intact.
>
> Russ
>