Greetings,

I'm pleased to announce the mirror of the linux kernel tree from its cvs export is now available at:

svn://svn.clkao.org/linux/cvs

Web interface available at http://svn.clkao.org/svnweb/linux/log/cvs/

Courtesy to the nice and extensible VCP framework, the mirror is history preserving, and will be up-to-date in the case that cvs tree is available over rsync.

The mirror is done with:

svk mirror /linux/cvs cvsbk:/path/to/cvsroot:/linux-2.5/... --branch-only=trunk svk sync /linux/cvs

The supporting code for cvsbk: scheme will be available on CPAN shortly, and you will be able to do your own mirror if you wish to.

Needless to say, you could use svk to mirror the above url and create a local branch for local development and submitting patches.

Some statistics: Using the fsfs backend, the size of the repository is about twice of the 400M cvs repository; during the first-time conversion the memory consumption goes from about 150M to 200M maximum; subsequent incremental conversion takes about 5 min.

A full announcement will be made to the linux kernel mailing list around the weekend with some faq answered, to avoid unnecessary flame war.

Special thanks to xs4all.nl proving hardware and bandwidth for svk development as well as such mirror service.

Happy hacking.

Cheers, CLK