From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 00:21:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hubs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8536106564A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp6.server.rpi.edu (smtp6.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512EF8FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp6.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m37NKKNN019320; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:20:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:20:19 -0400 To: pav@FreeBSD.org, hubs@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.226 Cc: Subject: Re: package distribution crisis - CDN needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:21:48 -0000 At 11:50 PM +0200 4/7/08, Pav Lucistnik wrote: >Okay the situation recently was that the mirrors had no chance keeping >up with all the package sets I've been uploading to ftp-master. > >We clearly need to move beyond rsync/cvsup synced ftp mirrors. This >does not scale. Maybe do something more "bit-torrent-y" ? That seems to scale quite well! -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA