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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:20:50 +1000 (EST)
From:      jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
To:        Felix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org>, James Olson <jolson@cs.wisc.edu>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WWW/CVS Mirror ... Information ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.20.0108221215430.29054-100000@azure.dstc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010821215721.I12461-100000@idem.ath.cx>

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Felix-Antoine Paradis wrote:

> Will that structure slow down the distribution or new files/changes?
> 
> if file1 is changed, and the tier 2 server updates a bit before tier1
> server does, will that slow things?
> 
> Will the "mirroration" ;> time will be taken into consideration?

it would certainly have issues.  there would be a couple of ways
around this.

o have tier-1 sites do a large number of checks, e.g once an hour
  or every 4 hours.  this would reduce any window of time in which
  content was updated on ftp-master, was pulled by a tier-1 and a
  24 hour gap before a tier-2 grabbed it

o have tier-1 sites coordinate their updates with content updates
  on ftp-master.  i.e changes on ftp-master are only allowed within
  a certain window of time.

o setup a push mechanism of rsync over ssh, such that the master
  pushes the content out to tier-1 servers if there are changes.


my personal feeling is that either option 2 or 3 would work reasonbly
well, but all of the above would require some level of communication
and coordination between freebsd developers and the ftp-master
maintainer(s).  i would certainly have very large issues if there
was no co-ordination such that someone made a change on ftp-master
e.g moving a major directory, which resulted in a "push" that deleted
gigabytes of local data, only to refetch it again in a new location.

regards,

-jason


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