Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 14:15:07 +0200 From: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <20010508141507.C94054@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <20010507151321.A12712@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:13:21PM -0700 References: <20010507125604P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010507163119.H3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010507144618.A12252@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010507164650.J3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010507150006.C12252@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010507170242.K3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010507151321.A12712@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote (2001/05/07): > I assume > there will be a small number of sites that will mirror every FreeBSD bit > offered, but from the feedback of late, I don't think most main-line > mirrors will. Yes, I think that FreeBSD has MANY mirrors, but MANY of them are not up to date and it is hard to orientate among such big number of mirrors. I have checked it many times, when I tested when and which fresh iso images and releases various sites carry. If I were a normal FreeBSD user, I would not use any FreeBSD mirror site, because I simply could not believe to them. I would like to see much lower number of primary mirror sites, but with much higher quality and credibility. What about splitting up a list of mirror sites into primary (proven, credible) and secondary (incomplete, slower) categories? Imagine 4.4-RELEASE and all 100+ (?) mirror sites syncing and waiting for 4.4-release.iso over rsync :-) > > > If it is truly just a disk space issue, we should investigate if we can > > > get subsidized disks for well-connected mirrors. > > > BW is really the issue, what is expensive, and what we lack. > > Yup, but space is also an issue and should not be ignored. > Yes, to a point. If I put known issues into an ordered list, I get myself: 1) Management issues (time wasting - here are flowing big $$) - there are missing any apparent future plans about changes on master ftp site, there are still unreadable files and I still do not understand why and so on 2) Bandwidth limitations 3) Disk space limitations -- Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar) Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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