From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262320AbVAEK5r (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 05:57:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262322AbVAEK5r (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 05:57:47 -0500 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:698 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262320AbVAEK5q (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 05:57:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:57:31 -0800 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Andrew Morton Cc: Horst von Brand , tytso@mit.edu, davidsen@tmr.com, bunk@stusta.de, diegocg@teleline.es, willy@w.ods.org, wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050105105731.GA4471@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <20050103183621.GA2885@thunk.org> <200501032113.j03LDWsa004885@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20050105012709.5c970983.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050105012709.5c970983.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:27:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > Is there any estimate of the number of daily-straight-from-BK users? > > fwiw, it seems that there were ~1200 downloads of 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 from > kernel.org. Almost all via http - only 20 downloads appear in vsftpd.log, > which seems fishy. The number of downloads via mirrors is unknown. The front-page link to the "latest -mm patch" is http. Also, people like me who use wget and lftp probably prefer to download using http, since with those clients it ends up working like FTP but without wasting time on anonymous login (i.e. it happens to be faster). -Barry K. Nathan