Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:08:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: gordont@bluemtn.net (Gordon Tetlow) Cc: jason@dstc.edu.au (jason andrade), hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <200105091308.JAA21102@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105090101110.7718-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> from "Gordon Tetlow" at May 09, 2001 01:11:04 AM
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> From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 04:13:03 2001 > To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> > Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master > > To get this work seamlessly, you need to put code into fetch/sysinstall to > automagically try archive.freebsd.org when it can't find what it needs on > ftp.freebsd.org. The advantage to this is a ftp.freebsd.org server will > have high bandwidth requirements but lower disk requirements. An archive > server will have large disk requirements but lower bandwidth requirements. > This gives mirror operators the opportunity to sit down, assess what they > can provide (ie, I can provide lots of disk, but not much bandwidth) and > fill one of the above 2 roles. > My guess is there won't be many signing up for the archive role. Mirror operators typically need to justify their existence to someone. *Usually* that justification will be having locally what it takes to do a FreeBSD install and wind up with a current machine. That's not what all end-users want to do but that's what the bulk of them want to do. If a mirror operator is willing to store more than what you propose ftp.freebsd.org would hold that's nice of them but I don't see where being a site that has older stuff only is going to attract a lot of folks. I could be wrong of course. I really like the clean separation of what's current versus old that you proposed for a variety of reasons. Architecting it so that one machine can hold both of them would be cool though. ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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