Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 05:33:15 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: James Olson <jolson@cs.wisc.edu>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW/CVS Mirror ... Information ? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0108220526200.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20010821201821.A11705@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Lang wrote: > > Along the same lines, is it possible to be an official mirror without mirroring > > all 50 gigs? Currently I have 4.2, 4.3, 4.x stable and all -current stuff > > mirrored until i can get more disk space for the rest of FreeBSD. > [..] > Well, some people on this list (Jason Andrade?) have proposed > some terminology, like "tier 1"-mirrors, which should carry the > whole lot, and which are able to sync from ftp-master. > Further there are other mirrors (tier 2 and above), which > do not sync directly, but from tier 1 mirrors. i'd proposed something.. there was informal agreement that it might be a sensible thing, but there hasn't actually been any formal adoption of it as a model, let alone any enforcement. to summarise, if you are heading down the track of wanting to be a tier-1 mirror, which requires carrying a complete freebsd archive and having significant bandwidth (45Mbit ? 155Mbit?) to serve end users and other mirror sites, then i'm sure it wouldn't be a problem being considered official while it's setup. if you planned to serve a more regional focus and carry parts of the archive, then it'd be as a tier-2. tier-2 sites would be listed as download sites in sysinstall - the only difference was that they might be required to sync from a tier-1, instead of ftp-master. there was no intention of presenting a tier-2 mirror as a "less preferable" one to end users.. it was proposed this way to add some scaling into the freebsd mirror network from a back end POV. i really should put up something a bit more formal and see if a few people here are willing to bash it into something that is workable and enforceable... cheers, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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