Utility of FTP snapshots?

[RDBrown@mira.net]

The number of concurrent FTP users on sources.redhat.com has been reduced
from 30 to 5, presumably for better CVS performance.

Given that, could the snapshot files be pushed onto a friendly mirror
and or could the files comprising the snapshot be pruned somewhat
- say down to
gcc-20010409-CVS.tar.bz2	# Checkout of CVS tree for the snapshot branch
gcc-20010402-20010409-CVS.diff.bz2

(from the gdb/snapshot directory)
250-
250-*-CVS-*.tar.bz2             Checkout of the CVS tree (made weekly)
250-                    may be faster than `cvs -z9 co ...`
250-

rather than the current

      50344 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
   17025545 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-20010409.tar.gz
         53 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-chill-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
     623599 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-chill-20010409.tar.gz
      22968 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-core-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
    9318617 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-core-20010409.tar.gz
       9747 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g++-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
    2085387 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g++-20010409.tar.gz
       1427 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g++-tests-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
     585175 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g++-tests-20010409.tar.gz
       1000 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g77-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
    1310121 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g77-20010409.tar.gz
         61 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g77-testsuite-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
     162120 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-g77-testsuite-20010409.tar.gz
      15645 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-java-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
    3069098 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-java-20010409.tar.gz
         52 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-objc-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
     273906 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-objc-20010409.tar.gz
       2418 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-tests-20010402-20010409.diff.gz
    1017312 Apr 10 00:07 gcc-tests-20010409.tar.gz

This assumes that the component tar files aren't heavily requested and
that the above would reduce the mirror and total download load.