From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262225AbTKRNIp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:08:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262564AbTKRNIp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:08:45 -0500 Received: from gprs147-139.eurotel.cz ([160.218.147.139]:1152 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262225AbTKRNIm (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:08:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:59:13 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Larry McVoy , Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air Message-ID: <20031118095912.GA233@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200311112021.34631.andrew@walrond.org> <20031111235215.GA22314@work.bitmover.com> <200311131010.27315.andrew@walrond.org> <20031113162712.GA2462@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031113162712.GA2462@work.bitmover.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > I could make some comment about this being a good example of one of > > > the zillion little problems we've had to solve but if I go there it's > > > going to start a flame war. So I won't. I will note that none of the > > > solutions proposed come close to being acceptable, they all fail on NFS > > > and on SMB shares. And they don't cascade properly as HPA has noted. > > > > Absolutely. Bk is, undeniably, brilliant, and would solve all these problems > > at a stroke, except that the open source community cannot with good > > conscience exclude *anyone* from being able to access the sources. > > But noone is excluded from having access to the sources. > > I suppose it sounds like we don't want to give out more free engineering > but let's put things into perspective. The CVS server has about 6 > users. I do not know where you got that number, but its wrong. You cited 6 unique IP addresses... I certainly did updates from more than _that_. But I use time rsync -zav --delete rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5 ., so I'm probably not counted in your statistics. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]