Re: [arch-dev-public] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 05:13:33PM +0100, Florian Pritz wrote:

Hi,

ftp connects way slower than http, especially for lots of small files, since it has to connect back to the client each time.

Since I don't see any benefit over http and ftp is old, I propose to remove all the ftp mirrors from the default mirror list.

-- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

+1 to this. In case you think FTP is still a good idea in 2012, here's some reading for you, with varying amounts of bias: - http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html - http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie d