Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distributing very large files. Maybe we could use it too?
-Rob
On 4/2/06, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:39:41 +0100, Justin wrote in message
< [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just out of interest i know FG scenery for the world is about 13Gb in
> tgz format.
..correct:
a45:/var/www/cK# du -sh /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery- 0.9.*
13G /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.10
13G /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.7
a45:/var/www/cK# ll /mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.10 \
|wc -l
512
..pick all one by one with:
a45:/var/www/cK# cat /mnt/FlightGearScenery/cmd.FG.Scenery
wget -nH -np -m --passive-ftp \
ftp://ftp.de.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.10
a45:/var/www/cK#
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