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Re: Resellers/Random thoughts on commercialism



On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

 : On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:34:34PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
 : > On Feb 20, Jim Pick wrote:
 : > > Besides, physical media isn't the ideal distribution mechanism for
 : > > Debian.
 : > 
 : > Well, it is for initial installations (so you don't need a lot of
 : > space on the system before installation).
 : 
 : We need more NFS-exported mirrors (security problems aside). That way you
 : won't need that much space. 
 : \begin{daydreaming} 
 : Has anybody been playing with CODA-exported mirrors?
 : \end{daydreaming} 

Thought about it; that's as far as it got (I know nothing about CODA
except it's supposed to be better than NFS ...)

Anyone care to "educate" me on the issues involved?

BTW we were running with world-wide NFS export enabled; it was abused
beyond belief.

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