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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:04:12 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid
Message-ID:  <C44A31FF-D504-482B-9AAC-B8E045E5A1BC@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86lj2ebh9n.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes:
>> That's a good point. I was planning on using libfetch's restart
>> feature for this case. Do you think that would be unreliable?
>
> (old thread, but)
>
> libfetch does not have a restart feature, unless you mean the HTTP
> byte-range stuff.  The restart / mirror etc. stuff is implemented in
> fetch(1).

I did mean the byte range stuff (the URL offset argument). I took a =20
look at the fetch(1) source, and it seemed like its restart =20
implementation was just a very small amount of logic on top of this.
-Nathan=



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