On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 01:00, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

> Hmm... the difference is comparatively significant as waiting for half
> an hour to transfer 700MB on a 100Mbps line is just way too slow. But
> placing it inside the publication directory of an HTTP server then
> downloading it from there incurs no side effects as dramatic as the
> nfs/ssh method. Weird.

Is this ISO image containing highly compressible data? The reason why
HTTP seems faster might be because of mod_gzip.

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