On Wed, 29 May 2013 11:52:04 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Also do we know how many mirrors support byte ranges?
We could go all the way and have a relatively large uncompressed
database stored on the mirrors, but have the client only access small
byte ranges from it.
We used to use byte-ranges but what we discovered is how many proxies
do NOT support byte-ranges and how quickly that falls apart.
-sv