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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Change proposal discussion - Optimize SquashFS Size
From:       Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler () chello ! at>
Date:       2020-02-05 22:57:14
Message-ID: r1fh8b$45h$1 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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Kamil Paral wrote:
> I have already responded to your exaggerated numbers once, and you didn't
> even reply. "Hours of difference" for "a few percent increase", let's say
> 3 hours for 3 percent increase, means 100 hours total download time.
> That's over 4 days of non-stop download. I don't consider that plausible.

I used to download Red Hat Linux (FTP edition) in > 1 week with what was 
then considered a "broadband" connection. (And these days, Fedora is so much 
larger than RHL used to be that even a significantly faster connection than 
that will take a week to download it.)

It doesn't have to be non-stop, HTTP(S) supports resuming downloads. (Though 
the download can be continued even overnight. Resuming is only needed if an 
unwanted interruption happens.)

        Kevin Kofler
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