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In article <richard.701308591@mulgulgum>, richard@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Begg) writes:
|> What's the story with plaza?  Has it still got disk problems or what?

Over the last few days an "enhanced" FTP daemon has been used on
archie.au to provide transparent access to additional archives located
outside Australia (via the Proespero distributed file system) that are
not maintained as complete mirrors on archie.au. Unfortunately there
have some problems with the performance of this new daemon so it has
been replaced with the original one used when archie.au was first
announced. This was despite a non-trival amount of testing prior
to installation ...

|> As it stands it is quicker to FTP stuff from overseas!

The Prospero daemon would still be faster to retrieve things from overseas,
but the problem was that a) acess to local files was slower, and b) the
newer daemon did not support all the ls options (eg. -t) users have come
to expect.

I trust things are better now ?

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