Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:16:17 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: pav@FreeBSD.org, hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: package distribution crisis - CDN needed Message-ID: <47FAE381.10305@jonny.eng.br> In-Reply-To: <p06240802c4205b76b4f8@[128.113.24.47]> References: <1207605059.1031.38.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <p06240802c4205b76b4f8@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> 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!
Surely a must for CD and DVD images, but not much useful for package
installation, IMHO.
Jonny
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João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny@jonny.eng.br
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