Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  1) Novell did not prepare metalink files with segment information.
>  2) the aria2c client doesn't handle segment checksums.
> 
> You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp 
> download.

It is far less reliable than a single ftp/http from a good server if the
download method gets chunks from multiple servers of which some are good
and some are bad. The unreliabilities of each chunk(-server) are
multiplied here. A chunked download without chunked checking isn't worth
the bother IMHO.

> A single failure proves unreliability. A hundred sucesses do not prove 
> otherwise.

Especially if the single failure is as bad as it possibly can.

I had wget once wipe a download for me at the 2GB limit (on 128kbit
cable, arrrgh). I didn't use it again for anything serious until that
was fixed.

Of course, rsync always works reliably and as a bonus, fixes things up
too.

Volker

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