From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue May 8 14:21:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AB937B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f48LLUO22755 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 07:21:30 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 07:21:31 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master In-Reply-To: <20010508141507.C94054@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 May 2001, Cejka Rudolf wrote: [...] > 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 :-) from observing redhat releases, there are about 25 "primary" sites - i.e ones where admins will work to ensure a pre-release is completely available before an announcement. the other 100 or so sites tend to catch up at a rate of anything from a few days, to a few weeks, depending on the size of their mirror. but of those 25, i doubt there are more than half a dozen who can offer a complete (80G+?) redhat mirror. i'd expect similar numbers with freebsd mirroring. sometimes the concept of a "primary" might be more important as having an up to the date release available than a complete freebsd archive per se. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message