2008/12/25 Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
But at least this would allow Erik, researchers
and archivers to get the
dump faster than they can get the compressed version. The number of people
who want this can't be > 100, can it? It would need to be metered by an API
I guess.
Maybe we can run a sneakernet of DLTs. The Florida sysadmins run off a
stack of tapes, they send those to someone to run off copies of and
distribute to the next layer, and so on ...
- d.
I'd more be thinking of handing over a stack of hard drives to
wikimedia chapter reps at wikimania .
--
geni