Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:31:37 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: hubs@freebsd.org Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: It's time for 5.1-R bits Message-ID: <3EDF7E79.3000501@freebsd.org>
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Hubs, i386 and pc98 bits for 5.1-R are ready to go online. Alpha and sparc64 will happen over the next 2 days. We are scheduled to make the announcement and press release on Monday, June 9. So, it's time to decide on how to push out the bits to the mirrors without allowing public access, how to quickly grant public access, and what, if anything, should be done about BitTorrent. 1. Distributing to the mirrors. The easiest approach seems to be to use a permission setting of 0660 on the files and 0770 on the directories. However, this will exclude the second-tier mirrors that mirror off of others using anonymous access. What should be done about this? 2. Granting anonymous access. If I publish an exact time, will everyone be able to tweak their mirrors by hand? If not, will rsync'ing the permission change be fast enough and not eat up too much bandwidth? 3. BitTorrent. I personally like this idea. We only need a few mirrors to act as seeds. Once the release happens and people start using these seeds, they'll become seeds themselves and the load will quickly flatten out. However, it's up to you guys. Please let me know what you think as soon as possible. Scott
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