Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Wes Kurdziolek <wkurdzio@cslab.vt.edu> To: <freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: We seriously need a cleanup on ftp-master Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105091021090.13276-100000@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105090101110.7718-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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ftp3.freebsd.org will volunteer to be archive.freebsd.org. We've got plenty of disk space, and I have lately routinely needed files from pre-3.x releases. -- Wes Kurdziolek Virginia Tech Computer Science Lab UNIX System Administrator E-mail: wkurdzio@cslab.vt.edu Voice: +1 (540) 231-3457 Office: 116A McBryde Hall http://www.cslab.vt.edu/ On Wed, 9 May 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2001, jason andrade wrote: > > > 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. > > So why not formalize that relationship with an archive.freebsd.org which > stores all the older stuff and ftp.freebsd.org that has the latest and > greatest: > > Latest -RELEASE with packages > Latest -SNAP (current and stable) > Latest packages > > 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. > > -gordon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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